Allocation of buffer spaces in a flexible manufacturing system: A model and a case example

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1350-1358

  Xiaobo, Z ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blocking mechanism; FMS; Part routing policy; Queueing network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

BLOCK DEPENDENT STATIC MARKOV ROUTING; BLOCKING MECHANISM; BUFFER SPACE ALLOCATION; PART ROUTING POLICY; UNIT LOAD TRANSFER TOOLS; WORK IN PROCESS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0035577906     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601237     Document Type: Article

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