Investigating the Latest Developments in Maintenance Modelling and Optimisation

维护建模和优化涉及到对资本资产（如生产厂房、建筑物、军事设备和许多其他需要维护的资产）高效和有效运行的各个方面的研究。这些包括日常检查、预防性维护、更换和升级的建模和优化。维护建模研究涉及许多学科的概念和技术，如工程，管理，数学，统计和运筹学。每个学科的知识都在不断增长。所涉学科之间的相互作用对于成功和有效地实施既定方法是必要的。维护建模和优化的结果是关于维护活动的时间表和计划的维护决策的重要输入，其影响成本。该项目寻求一笔旅游补助金的支持，以访问一些世界领先的研究人员在维护建模和优化。提出了四个工作包，每一个都与被访问教授的研究概况的一个显著特点有关。所提议的许多工作包是由拟访问的东道机构教授和本提案的作者进行的研究，但是，需要以一种整体和系统的方式探讨所开发和使用的技术的比较和组合。我们在项目中探索如何最好地利用每个主办机构的专业知识和实力，为概念，理论和应用之间提供桥梁，以及集成维护建模和优化的有效研究所需的各种学科。

Maintenance modeling and optimization are concerned with the study of the various aspects of efficient and effective running of capital assets such as production plant, building, military equipment and many others which need maintenance. These ranged from the modeling and optimization of routine inspection, preventive maintenance, replacement to upgrading. Maintenance modeling studies involve concepts and techniques from many disciplines, such as engineering, management, mathematics, statistics and operational research. The knowledge in each discipline is ever increasing. The interaction between the disciplines involved is necessary for successful and effective implementation of an established methodology. Results of maintenance modeling and optimization are important inputs to maintenance decision making regarding the schedule and plan of maintenance activities, which impact costs. This project seeks the support of a trvalling grant to visit some world leading researchers in maintenance modelling and optimisation. Four work packages are proposed and each is related to a distinctive feature of the research profile of the professors to be visited. Many of the work packages proposed have been studies by the professors to be visited in the host institutions and by the author of this proposal, however, a holistic and systematic way to explore the comparison and combination of the techniques developed and used is needed. We explore in the project how best utilizing the expertise and strength at each host institution to provide bridges between concepts, theory and applications, as well an integration of the various disciplines needed for the effective study of maintenance modeling and optimization with an applied orientation.