Performance evaluation models for single-item periodic pull production systems

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 239-250

  Kirkavak, Nureddin ^a   Dinner, Cemal ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Approximate decomposition; Markov processes; Performance evaluation; Pull production

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; STATE SPACE METHODS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATE DECOMPOSITION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERIODIC PULL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030084905     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.1996.22     Document Type: Article

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