Production and changeover control policies of a class of failure prone buffered flow-shops

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 785-800

  Hajji, Adnene ^a   Gharbi, Ali ^a   Kenné, Jean Pierre ^b   Hidehiko, Yamamoto ^c  

^a Production Systems Design and Control Laboratory   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC   (Canada)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buffered flow shops; Numerical methods; Production and setup control; Production control; Real time scheduling; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWNS AND REPAIRS; BUFFERED FLOW-SHOPS; COMPLEX FLOW; CONTINUOUS DYNAMICS; CONTROL POLICY; FLOW-SHOPS; HEURISTIC POLICIES; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL SCHEME; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS; PRODUCTION PLANS; REAL-TIME SCHEDULING; RESEARCH STUDIES; SERIAL MACHINE; SET-UP TIME; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; SYSTEM STATE;

NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLANNING; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 70449408043     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280903232354     Document Type: Article

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