Lean buffering in serial production lines with Bernoulli machines

Lean buffering is the smallest buffer capacity necessary to ensure the desired production rate of a manufacturing system. In this paper, analytical methods for selecting lean buffering in serial production lines are developed under the assumption that the machines obey the Bernoulli reliability mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: A. B. Hu, S. M. Meerkov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2006-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/MPE/2006/17105