Abstract
Airline companies are increasingly outsourcing their fleets’ heavy maintenance to independent maintenance service providers. This paper investigates the aircraft maintenance routing problem (AMRP) under the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) outsourcing mode. Considering interorganizational maintenance implementation, an airline company's accessibility to maintenance service is affected by the varying maintenance capabilities of the maintenance service provider, which depends on heterogenous maintenance resource availability (e.g., the accommodation capacity of maintenance hangars and the availability of maintenance technicians and aviation spare parts). To enhance the airline's service accessibility to maintenance service, we propose an efficient maintenance planning strategy with a collaborative mechanism based on service information sharing and service capability evaluation from the airline's perspective. Afterward, a time-complexity reduction approach is presented to enhance the discrete-time-stamp-indexed mathematical model formulation. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach were evaluated through various problem scenarios, based on the operational data from a regional airline. Managerial implications regarding maintenance strategy and the accuracy of maintenance capability evaluation are also discussed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 110071 |
Journal | Computers and Industrial Engineering |
Volume | 190 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2024 |
Keywords
- Aircraft Maintenance Routing
- Collaborative maintenance
- Maintenance outsourcing
- Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
- Model-enhancement-based Optimization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- General Engineering