Bottlenecks with Respect to Due-Time Performance in Pull Serial Production Lines

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 479-498

  Li, Jingshan ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Blockage; Bottleneck; Due time performance; Production systems; Starvation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346992882     PISSN: 1024123X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1024123X99001209     Document Type: Article

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