A Multiple Time Series Approach to Modeling the Manufacturing Job-Shop as a Network of Queues
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science
- Vol. 24 (4) , 456-463
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.24.4.456
Abstract
The behavior of a uniformly sampled network of job-shop queues is characterized and interpreted using multiple time series. An analysis of actual queue data for a network of five functionally related machine centers shows that queue behavior is adequately described as a first order vector valued autoregressive model. This model describes the stochastic nature of each queue in the shop and its relationship to the other queues comprising the network. A network of queues obtained from simulating this job-shop under a composite dispatching rule is also modeled and interpreted as a first order, multivariate autoregressive process.Keywords
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