Modeling manufacturing dependability

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-168

  Zakarian, Armen ^a   Kusiak, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Dependability; Manufacturing systems; Markov chains; System performance; Task analysis

Indexed keywords

MACHINING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031118825     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.563639     Document Type: Article

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