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| Author: | Yao, D. D. Buzacott, J. A. |
| Title: | Modelling a class of flexible manufacturing systems with reversible routing. |
| Journal: | Operations Research
1987 : JAN-FEB, VOL. 35:1, p. 87-93 |
| Index terms: | PRODUCTION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A flexible manufacturing system /FMS/ is modeled as a close queueing network with a set of stations, each with a local buffer of limited capacity. Based on the theory of reversibility as well as some known approaches in the studies of queueing networks with finite buffers, product-form solutions are derived to a class of such FMS networks that have reversible parts routing. This class also includes a certain type of dynamic routing scheme. For systems with zero-buffer stations, it is shown that solutions have product form even for nonexponential processing times. |
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