Performance analysis of a multiple vehicle tandem system with inter-vehicle buffers and blocking

Computers in Industry

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-11

  Petering, Matthew E H ^a,b   Seo, Jaeyoung ^a   Lee, Chulung ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Material handling system; Production line; Tandem system; Throughput; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAILROAD CAR BUFFERS; RAILROAD STATIONS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

INTER VEHICLE BUFFERS; PRODUCTION LINE; STATE TRANSITION MATRIX; TANDEM SYSTEM;

MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33751425926     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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