Transient behavior of two-machine geometric production lines

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 453-458

  Meerkov, Semyon M ^a   Shimkin, Nahum ^b   Zhang, Liang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

Effects of up and downtime; Geometric reliability model; Production lines; Production rate; Transient behavior

Indexed keywords

MARKOV CHAIN; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION RATES; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RELIABILITY MODEL; SECOND LARGEST EIGENVALUE; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE; STEADY STATE; TECHNICAL NOTES; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSITION MATRICES; TWO-MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; THROUGHPUT;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 76949085283     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2009.2036328     Document Type: Article

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