Throughput analysis of production systems: Recent advances and future topics

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3823-3851

  Li, Jingshan ^a   E Blumenfeld, Dennis ^b   Huang, Ningjian ^b   M Alden, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing systems; Production modelling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; APPROXIMATION METHODS; AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; FINITE BUFFER; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARALLEL LINE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RESEARCH TOPICS; SERIAL LINE; SPLIT-AND-MERGE; THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; UNRELIABLE MACHINE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 70449688145     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701829752     Document Type: Article

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