An upper bound for carriers in a three-workstation closed serial production system operating under production blocking

We develop and prove a rule for an upper bound on the optimal number of carriers (with respect to throughput) in a three-workstation closed serial production system with finite buffers, operating under production blocking (blocking-after-service). This system is, in fact, a three server (single serv...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE transactions on automatic control 2002-07, Vol.47 (7), p.1134-1138
Hauptverfasser:	Kim, D.S., Kulkarni, D.M., Feng Lin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied sciences Assembly systems Blocking Buffers Carriers Computer science control theory systems Control theory. Systems Exact sciences and technology Job production systems Manufacturing industries Mathematical analysis Network servers Optimization Process control. Computer integrated manufacturing Production systems Random variables Serials Servers Throughput Upper bound Upper bounds Vehicles Workstations
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Zusammenfassung:	We develop and prove a rule for an upper bound on the optimal number of carriers (with respect to throughput) in a three-workstation closed serial production system with finite buffers, operating under production blocking (blocking-after-service). This system is, in fact, a three server (single server) closed tandem queueing system with finite buffers. Our assumptions regarding service time distributions are nonrestrictive and include the case of iid random variables.
ISSN:	0018-9286 1558-2523
DOI:	10.1109/TAC.2002.800653