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| Author: | Pourbabai, B. |
| Title: | Minimum required local storages of an automated assembly system |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society
1992 : FEB, VOL. 43:2, p. 95-109 |
| Index terms: | QUEUING THEORY OPTIMIZATION PRODUCTION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | An optimal strategy for selection of the required local storages of the workstations and transporter stations of a finite capacity flexible assembly line is presented while controlling the bottleneck problem. For this purpose, a mixed non-Markovian queueing network with infinite capacity nodes is presented to model its performance, a stochastic optimization model is provided and a heuristic algorithm is developed for solving it. Finally, an example is presented and the approximation results are compared with those from a simulation study. |
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