Transient analysis of Bernoulli serial lines: Performance evaluation and system-theoretic properties

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 528-543

  Zhang, Liang ^a   Wang, Chuanfeng ^b   Arinez, Jorge ^c   Biller, Stephan ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^d GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli machine; Production lines; transient analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND CONTROLS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BERNOULLI; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONSUMPTION RATES; FINITE BUFFER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION RATES; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SERIAL LINE; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE; SYSTEM TRANSIENTS; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENT PERFORMANCE; WORK-IN-PROCESS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873689426     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2012.721946     Document Type: Article

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