Production variability in manufacturing systems: Bernoulli reliability case

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 299-324

  Li, Jingshan ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Production systems; Production variability; Unreliable machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034384883     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018928007956     Document Type: Article

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