DT-bottlenecks in serial production lines: theory and application

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 567-580

  Chiang, Shu Yin ^a,b   Kuo, Chih Tsung ^a,c   Meerkov, Semyon M ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TATUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE; AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT PLANT; DOWN TIME BOTTLENECKS; PRODUCTION LINE;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 0034291972     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.880806     Document Type: Article

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