TY - GEN
T1 - Designing a Bi-Level Collaborative Maintenance Planning Approach Between Airline and Service Company Under MRO Outsourcing Practice
AU - Qin, Yichen
AU - Ng, Kam K.H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Collaborative planning for aircraft maintenance operations emerges with the transition of aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) outsourcing practice. Airline outsources its fleet's maintenance operations to an independent MRO service company, involving a cross-organizational aircraft maintenance planning issue with maintenance demand and service supply's matching along the planning period. A bi-level mixed-integer linear programming mathematical formulation is proposed in this paper, which describes the hierarchical relations between airline and MRO company to facilitate planning decision associated with maintenance operations. In the bi-level maintenance planning, airline leads and initiates the collaborative maintenance through its fleet's maintenance plan, then service company is the follower reacting to the MRO demands from airline according to its maintenance capability limits. The bi-level framework aims to reconcile the conflicts between MRO demand and supply. The interdependent relations between MRO demand and supply, as well as the bottleneck in causing planning conflicts are modelled and quantified in the bi-level model. We further proposed an algorithmic framework for solving the proposed bi-level problem.
AB - Collaborative planning for aircraft maintenance operations emerges with the transition of aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) outsourcing practice. Airline outsources its fleet's maintenance operations to an independent MRO service company, involving a cross-organizational aircraft maintenance planning issue with maintenance demand and service supply's matching along the planning period. A bi-level mixed-integer linear programming mathematical formulation is proposed in this paper, which describes the hierarchical relations between airline and MRO company to facilitate planning decision associated with maintenance operations. In the bi-level maintenance planning, airline leads and initiates the collaborative maintenance through its fleet's maintenance plan, then service company is the follower reacting to the MRO demands from airline according to its maintenance capability limits. The bi-level framework aims to reconcile the conflicts between MRO demand and supply. The interdependent relations between MRO demand and supply, as well as the bottleneck in causing planning conflicts are modelled and quantified in the bi-level model. We further proposed an algorithmic framework for solving the proposed bi-level problem.
KW - Aircraft Maintenance
KW - Bi-level Optimization
KW - Collaborative Maintenance
KW - Maintenance Outsourcing
KW - Maintenance Planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186088530&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM58616.2023.10406679
DO - 10.1109/IEEM58616.2023.10406679
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85186088530
T3 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2023
SP - 662
EP - 666
BT - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2023
Y2 - 18 December 2023 through 21 December 2023
ER -