Expected waiting times at loading stations in discrete-space closed-loop conveyors

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 516-532

  Bozer, Yavuz A ^a   Hsieh, Ying Jiun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conveyor systems; Facilities planning and design; Manufacturing; Queueing; Sortation conveyors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVEYORS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN; SORTATION CONVEYORS; WORK-IN-PROCESS (WIP);

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 1642518668     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00886-X     Document Type: Article

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