Manufacturing systems represent the vast majority of most industrial capital. Dealing with such systems, maintenance activities and production planning have been first approached either separately or sequentially. Recently, integrated approaches in the management and the design of manufacturing systems have become an important issue to deal with. Several studies demonstrated the benefit of joint decision on production and maintenance planning. In addition to maintenance and production activities, other studies considered also quality control. Many analytical and simulation models have been proposed to support joint decision making. There are however many important areas of manufacturing systems decision making that are not studied or are insufficiently covered such as warranty, logistics in addition to sustainable aspects.

This session aims to bring together a group of researchers who have investigated these topics and will have them share their research work with the community with the goal of fostering future research on these key issues. The session also aims to establish a bridge between the reliability & maintenance and the operational research communities.