Integrated planning and control of maintenance and production.

Within the production planning phase, future maintenance activities are scheduled insufficiently. This leads to the possibility that immediate maintenance demands interrupt the production process. Consequently, the availability of the machine tool regarded is decreased and high costs of failure occur. Hence, a novel approach is developed by the IFW, which enables to execute the production and maintenance planning and control simultaneously. The approach is based on condition-based maintenance and integrates the knowledge of load, wear and remaining service life time of tools and machine tool components in order to systematically schedule maintenance activities in production-free periods.