Lean buffering in serial production lines with non-exponential machines

OR Spectrum

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 195-219

  Enginarlar, Emre ^a   Li, Jingshan ^b   Meerkov, Semyon M ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficients of variation; Empirical law; Lean production systems; Non exponential machine reliability model; Serial lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444397754     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-004-0187-1     Document Type: Article

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