Failure models and throughput rate of transfer lines

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1835-1859

  Mourani, I ^a   Hennequin, S ^a   Xie, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

Operation dependent failures; Throughput rate; Time dependent failures; Timed Petri net; Transfer lines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETRI NETS;

OPERATION-DEPENDENT FAILURES (ODF); THROUGHPUT RATE; TIME-DEPENDENT FAILURES; TIMED PETRI NET; TRANSFER LINES;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 33947230616     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540600677716     Document Type: Article

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