Modeling and analysis of closed-loop production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 545-554

  Frein, Yannick ^a   Commault, Christian ^a   Dallery, Yves ^b  

^a ENSIEG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEYORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; REPAIR;

CLOSED LOOP PRODUCTION LINES;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030192549     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15458830.1996.11770699     Document Type: Article

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