The Analysis of a Production Line with Unreliable Machines and Random Processing Times
IIE TransactionsPublished 1 March 1992
Yushin Hong, C. Roger Glassey, Deok-Hyun Seong
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This paper develops an efficient analytical method for the analysis of an n-machine production line with unreliable machines and random processing times. The behavior of the n-machine line is approximated by the behaviors of the (n - 1) two-machine lines based on the decomposition. Simulation and numerical experiment show that the analytical method works well and is very efficient.
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