A Decomposition Method For The Approximate Evaluation Of Capacitated Transfer Lines With Unreliable Machines And Random Processing Times

1 June 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in IIE Transactions

Vol. 19 (2) , 150-159
https://doi.org/10.1080/07408178708975381

Abstract

This paper presents a decomposition method to evaluate the performance measures of a capacitated transfer line with unreliable machines and random processing times. The decomposition is based on approximating the k - 1-buffer system by k - 1 single-buffer systems. Numerical examples indicate that the approach is accurate as long as the probability that a machine is starved and blocked at the same time is small.

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