A Bound Heuristic Technique for Solving DRAMA Spares Optimizations

This paper studies the solution technique to solve the DRAMA spares allocation optimization problem. DRAMA model is an analytic spare optimization model of a multi-item, multi-location, and two-echelon inventory system. The computation of its system spares availability is,much complicated.The objective function and constraint functions of DRAMA model could be written as the separable forms. A new bound heuristic algorithm has been presented by improving the bound heuristic algorithm .for solving the reliability redundancy optimization problem (BHA in short). With the results, the proposed algorithm has been found to be more economical and effective than BHA to obtain the solutions of large DRAMA model. The new algorithm could be used to solve reliability redundancy optimization problems with. the separable forms.