Markovian analysis of a discrete material manufacturing system with merge operations, operation-dependent and idleness failures

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 466-487

  Diamantidis, A C ^a   Papadopoulos, C T ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flow production lines; Idleness failures; Merge operations; Operation dependent failures; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THROUGHPUT;

FLOW/PRODUCTION LINES; MERGE OPERATIONS; OPERATION-DEPENDENT FAILURES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748302072     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2005.04.004     Document Type: Article

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