Availability and throughput of unreliable, unbuffered production lines with non-homogeneous deterministic processing times

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5651-5677

  Dhouib, K ^a   Gharbi, A ^b   Ayed, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Non homogeneous production lines; Operation dependent failures; Simulation; Steady state availability; Throughput

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; INTERMEDIATE BUFFERS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS PRODUCTION LINES; OPERATION-DEPENDENT FAILURES; PROCESSING TIME; RANDOM OPERATIONS; SERIAL MACHINES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODELS; STEADY-STATE AVAILABILITY;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 65249085687     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701294635     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Askin, R.G. and Standridge, C.R., Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, 1993 (Wiley: New York, NY).
2. Banks, J., Carson, J.S. and Nelson, B.L., Discrete-Event System Simulation, 1996 (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
3. Barlow, R.E. and Proschan, F., Statistical Theory of Reliability and Life Testing, 1975 (Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York, NY).
4. Billinton, R. and Allan, R.N., Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems: Concepts and Techniques, 1983 (Pitman Advanced Publishing Program: Boston, MA).
5. Burbidge, J.L., Group Technology in the Engineering Industry, 1979 (Mechanical Engineering Publ.: London).
6. Buzacott, J.A., Prediction of the efficiency of production systems without internal storage. Int. J. Prod. Res., 1968, 6, 173-188.
7. Buzacott, J.A. and Shanthikumar, J.G., Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems, 1993 (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
8. Chen, C.T. and Yuan, J., Transient throughput analysis for a series type system of machines in terms of alternating renewal processes. Euro. J. Oper. Res., 2004, 155, 178-197.
9. Çinlar, E., Introduction to Stochastic Processes, 1975 (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
10. Commault, C. and Dallery, Y., Production rate of transfer lines without buffer storage. IIE Trans., 1990, 22, 315-329.
11. Dallery, Y., David, R. and Xie, X.L., Approximate analysis of transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers. IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., 1989, 34, 943-953.
12. Dallery, Y. and Gershwin, S.B., Manufacturing flow line systems: a review of models and analytical results. Queueing Systems Theory and Applications, 1992, 12 [Special Issue on Queueing Models of Manufacturing Systems], 3-94.
13. Dear, A., Working Towards Just-In-Time, 1988 (Kogan Page: London).
14. Freiheit, T., Shpitalni, M., Hu, S.J. and Koren, Y., Productivity of synchronized serial production lines with flexible reserve capacity. Int. J. Prod. Res., 2004, 42, 2009-2027.
15. Gallagher, C.C. and Knight, W.A., Group Technology: Production Methods in Manufacturing, 1986 (Ellis Horwood/Wiley: Chichester).
16. Gershwin, S.B., Manufacturing Systems Engineering, 1994 (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
17. Gershwin, S.B., Representation and analysis of transfer lines with machines that have different processing rates. Ann. Oper. Res., 1987, 9, 511-530.
18. Gnedenko, B. and Ushakov, I., Probabilistic Reliability Engineering, 1995 (Wiley: New York, NY).
19. Law, A.M. and Kelton, W.D., Simulation Modeling and Analysis, 2000 (McGraw-Hill: New York, NY).
20. Le Bihan, H., 'Méthodes approximatives d'étude des lignes de production. DEA dissertation, UniversitéPierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 1994.
21. Liu, X.-G. and Buzacott, J.A., Approximate models of assembly systems with finite inventory banks. Euro. J. Oper. Res., 1990, 45, 143-154.
22. Papadopoulos, H.T. and Heavey, C., Queueing theory in manufacturing systems analysis and design: A classification of models for production and transfer lines. Euro. J. Oper. Res., 1996, 92, 1-27.
23. Pritsker, A.A. and O'Reilly, J.J., Simulation with Visual SLAM and AweSim, 1999 (Wiley: New York, NY).
24. Rau, J.G., Optimization and Probability in Systems Engineering, 1970 (Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY).
25. Savsar, M. and Biles, W.E., Two-stage production lines with a single repair crew. Int. J. Prod. Res., 1984, 22, 499-514.
26. Suzaki, K., The New Manufacturing Challenge: Techniques for Continuous Improvement, 1987 (Free Press: New York, NY).
27. Tan, B., Variance of the throughput of an N-station production line with no intermediate buffers and time dependent failures. Eur. J. Opl. Res., 1997, 101, 560-576.
28. Yeralan, S. and Muth, E.J., A general model of a production line with intermediate buffers and station breakdowns. IIE Trans., 1987, 19, 130-139.
29. Zimmern, B., Études de la propagation des arrêts aléatoires dans les chaî nes de production. Rev. Statistiques Appliquées, 1956, 4, 85-104.