Variance of the throughput of an N-station production line with no intermediate buffers and time dependent failures

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 560-576

  Tan, Bariş ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Availability analysis; Production lines; Reliability; Stochastic models; Tandem queues

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; REPAIR;

PRODUCTION LINES;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031220337     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00191-9     Document Type: Article

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