Performance analysis of production systems with rework loops

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 755-765

  Li, Jingshan ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT;

OVERLAPPING DECOMPOSITION METHOD; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; REWORK LOOP;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 3242682462     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490458553     Document Type: Article

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