Throughput for production lines with serial work stations and parallel service facilities

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 211-232

  Magazine, Michael J ^a   Stecke, Kathryn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer allocation; Manufacturing system design; Queueing networks; Serial production lines; Throughput maximization; Unbalancing workload; Workload allocation

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUFFER ALLOCATION; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DESIGN; PARALLEL SERVICE FACILITIES; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINES; THROUGHPUT MAXIMIZATION; UNBALANCING WORKLOAD; WORKLOAD ALLOCATION;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030147766     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-5316(95)00005-4     Document Type: Article

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