Performance evaluation and enhancement of multistage manufacturing systems with rework loops

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 161-176

  Cao, Yongxin ^a   Subramaniam, V ^a,b   Chen, Ruifeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bottleneck identification; Manufacturing systems; Markov models; Performance evaluation; Rework

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOTTLENECK MACHINES; BUILDING BLOCKES; DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FINITE BUFFER; MACHINE FAILURE; MARKOV MODEL; MATERIAL FLOW; MULTI-STAGE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL INSPECTION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; REWORK; REWORK SYSTEMS; UNRELIABLE MACHINE; WORK-IN-PROCESS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 82655190199     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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