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Transient throughput analysis for a series type system of machines in terms of alternating renewal processes
Chin-Tai Chen,John Yuan +1 more
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A closed form and a sample path method to calculate and estimate the performance indices such as the mean and variance of the transient throughput, and the probability that the total outputs will satisfy the demand on time for a series system of unreliable machines with the same production rate and without intermediate buffers are presented.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 2004-05-16. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Renewal theory & Throughput (business).read more
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Moments of accumulated reward and completion time in Markovian models with application to unreliable manufacturing systems
TL;DR: Numerical results show how the theory developed in this paper can be applied to analyse the dependency of the output variability and the service level on the system parameters and highlight previously uninvestigated features of the system behavior that are useful while operating the system in practical settings.
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Analytical evaluation of the output variability in production systems with general Markovian structure
TL;DR: This paper presents a general methodology to analyze the variability of the output of unreliable single machines and small-scale multi-stage production systems modeled as General Markovian structure and the characterization of the autocorrelation structure of the system output.
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Simulation based throughput assessment of non-homogeneous transfer lines
K. Dhouib,Ali Gharbi,S. Ayed +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a general simulation model to assess the throughput of non-homogeneous transfer lines subject to random operation dependant failures, where the transfer line is dedicated to producing one product type which can be assimilated to an aggregation of various product types.
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Availability and throughput of unreliable, unbuffered production lines with non-homogeneous deterministic processing times
K. Dhouib,Ali Gharbi,S. Ayed +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed analytical models to assess steady-state availability and throughput of serial production lines composed of several serial machines which are subject to random operation-dependent failures.
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Modeling and Analysis of Output Variability in Discrete Material Flow Production Systems
TL;DR: Developing analytical models for performance evaluation of production systems by utilizing Markovian models and deriving various first-order performance measures from the steady-state probabilities is subject to numerous studies.
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Job Shop Scheduling by Simulated Annealing
TL;DR: In this article, an approximation algorithm for the problem of finding the minimum makespan in a job shop is presented, which is based on simulated annealing, a generalization of the well known iterative improvement approach to combinatorial optimization problems.
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Manufacturing flow line systems: a review of models and analytical results
Yves Dallery,Stanley B. Gershwin +1 more
TL;DR: The most important models and results of the manufacturing flow line literature are described and exact and approximate methods for obtaining quantitative measures of performance are reviewed.
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An Efficient Algorithm for Analysis of Transfer Lines With Unreliable Machines and Finite Buffers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed to replace the original set of equations by an equivalent one, which is again solved using an iterative procedure, and their new algorithm is simpler than the previous one.
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The Effect of Internal Storage on the Production Rate of a Series of Stages Having Exponential Service Times
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived the average production rates for two and three-stage production lines for a two-and-three-stage line, where the service times at each of the stages were assumed to be exponential random variables.