Effective process times for multi-server flowlines with finite buffers

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 177-186

  Kock, A A A ^a   Etman, L F P ^a   Rooda, J E ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregate modeling; Analytical queueing approximation; Blocking; Discrete event simulation; Effective process time; Finite buffer capacity; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY;

EFFECTIVE PROCESS TIME (EPT); FINITE BUFFERS; MULTI-SERVER TANDEM QUEUES; PATH EQUATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 38048999072     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170701488029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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