Bottlenecks in Markovian production lines: A systems approach

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 352-359

  Chiang, S Y ^a   Kuo, C T ^b   Meerkov, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Markovian statistics of breakdowns; Production bottlenecks; Production systems; Unreliable machines

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; PREVENTION; RELIABILITY;

MARKOVIAN PRODUCTION LINES;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0032048158     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.681256     Document Type: Article

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