Closed production lines with arbitrary models of machine reliability

4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 466-471

  Biller, Stephan ^a   Marin, Samuel P ^a   Meerkov, Semyon M ^b   Zhang, Liang ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed production line; Improvability; Unreliable machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY;

ARBITRARY MODELS; BERNOULLI; CLOSED PRODUCTION LINE; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; FACTORY FLOORS; IMPROVABILITY; MACHINE RELIABILITIES; MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENTS; PRODUCTION LINES; RELIABILITY MODELS; UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNRELIABLE MACHINES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 54949151968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2008.4626496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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