Bernoulli production lines with quality-quantity coupling machines: Monotonicity properties and bottlenecks

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-131

  Meerkov, Semyon M ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli reliability and quality models; Production lines; Quality quantity coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650219977     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0526-3     Document Type: Article

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