Hedging policies for failure-prone manufacturing systems: Optimality of jit and bounds on buffer levels

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 953-957

  Perkins, James R ^a   Srikant, R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure prone machine; Fluid models; Hedging policy; Manufacturing systems; Stochastic control

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

FAILURE PRONE MACHINE; JUST IN TIME MANUFACTURING;

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 0032122062     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.701096     Document Type: Article

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