Optimal production and backordering policy in failure-prone manufacturing systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 906-911

  Song, Dong Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backordering; Failure prone manufacturing system; Production control; Stationary distribution; Threshold control

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; STATE ESTIMATION;

BACKORDERING; FAILURE-PRONE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; STATIONARY DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD CONTROL;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646934632     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.872833     Document Type: Article

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