Production rate control of an unreliable manufacturing cell with adjustable capacity

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6539-6557

  Gharbi, Ali ^a   Hajji, Adnene ^b   Dhouib, Karem ^a,c  

^a Production Systems Design and Control Laboratory   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

adjustable capacity; HJB equation; production rate control; simulation; state dependent hedging point policy (SDHPP)

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE CAPACITY; HJB EQUATIONS; PRODUCTION RATE CONTROL; SIMULATION; STATE-DEPENDENT;

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80053003983     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.519734     Document Type: Article

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