System reliability of a manufacturing network with reworking action and different failure rates

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 6930-6944

  Lin, Yi Kuei ^a   Chang, Ping Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

decomposition method; different failure rates; manufacturing network; multistate; reworking; system reliability

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FAILURE RATE; MANUFACTURING NETWORKS; MULTI-STATE; REWORKING; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84868557870     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.638939     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adamyan, A. and He, D., 2002. Analysis of sequential failures for assessment of reliability and safety of manufacturing systems. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 76, 227-236. (Pubitemid 34545601)
2. Andrés, C., et al., 2005. Group technology in a hybrid flowshop environment: a case study. European Journal of Operational Research, 167, 272-281. (Pubitemid 40220015)
3. Black, J.J. and Mejabi, O.O., 1995. Simulation of complex manufacturing equipment reliability using object oriented methods. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 48, 11-18.
4. Buscher, U. and Lindner, G., 2007. Optimizing a production system with rework and equal sized batch shipment. Computers and Operations Research, 34, 515-535. (Pubitemid 44205371)
5. Ford, L.R. and Fulkerson, D.R., 1962. Flows in network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
6. Francas, F. and Minner, S., 2009. Manufacturing network configuration in supply chains with product recovery. Omega, 37, 757-769.
7. Lee, H. and Garcia-Diaz, A., 1993. A network flow approach to solve clustering problems in group technology. International Journal of Production Research, 31, 603-612. (Pubitemid 23628042)
8. Lee, H. and Garcia-Diaz, A., 1996. Network flow procedures for the analysis of cellular manufacturing systems. IIE Transactions, 28, 333-345. (Pubitemid 126760570)
9. Li, C., et al., 2009. A stochastic dynamic programming based model for uncertain production planning of re-manufacturing system. International Journal of Production Research, 47, 3657-3668.
10. Lin, J.S., 1998. Reliability evaluation of capacitated-flow networks with budget constraints. IIE Transactions, 30, 1175-1180.
11. Lin, J.S., Jane, C.C., and Yuan, J., 1995. On reliability evaluation of a capacitated-flow network in terms of minimal pathsets. Networks, 25, 131-138.
12. Lin, Y.K., 2003. Using minimal cuts to study the system capacity for a stochastic-flow network in two-commodity case. Computers and Operations Research, 30, 1595-1607.
13. Lin, Y.K., 2004. An algorithm to evaluate the system reliability for multicommodity case under cost constraint. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 48, 805-812.
14. Lin, Y.K., 2007a. Two-commodity reliability evaluation of a stochastic-flow network with varying capacity weight in terms of minimal paths. Computers and Operations Research, 36, 1050-1063.
15. Lin, Y.K., 2007b. Performance evaluation for the logistics system in case that capacity weight varies from arcs and types of commodity. International Journal of Production Economics, 107, 572-580.
16. Lin, Y.K., 2009. A MP-based algorithm for a multicommodity stochastic-flow network with capacity weights. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory Applications and Practice, 16, 282-292.
17. Lin, Y.K., 2010. Spare routing reliability for a stochastic flow network through two minimal paths under budget constraint. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 59, 2-10.
18. Listes, O., 2007. A generic stochastic model for supply-and-return network design. Computers and Operations Research, 34, 417-442. (Pubitemid 44205367)
19. Liu, Y. and Li, J., 2009. Modelling and analysis of split and merge production systems with Bernoulli reliability machines. International Journal of Production Research, 47, 4373-4397.
20. Paquet, M., Martel, A., and Montreuil, B., 2008. A manufacturing network design model based on processor and worker capabilities. International Journal of Production Research, 46, 2009-2030. (Pubitemid 351270700)
21. Savsar, M., 2000. Reliability analysis of a flexible manufacturing cell. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 67, 147-152. (Pubitemid 32212606)
22. Stevenson, W.J., 2007. Operation management: international student edition with global readings. New York: McGrawHill.
23. Teunter, R., Kaparis, K., and Tang, O., 2008. Multi-product economic lot scheduling problem with separate production lines for manufacturing and remanufacturing. European Journal of Operational Research, 191, 1241-1253. (Pubitemid 351778643)
24. Xue, J., 1985. On multistate system analysis. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 34, 329-337.
25. Yeh, W.C., 2008. A simple minimal path method for estimating the weighted multi-commodity multistate unreliable networks reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 93, 125-136.
26. Zuo, M.J., Tian, Z., and Huang, H.Z., 2007. An efficient method for reliability evaluation of multistate networks given all minimal path vectors. IIE Transactions, 39, 811-817. (Pubitemid 46876942)