Kr. Baker et Sg. Powell, A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR THE THROUGHPUT OF SIMPLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS, European journal of operational research, 81(2), 1995, pp. 336-345
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22
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science
Along with the three-station serial line, the three-station assembly s
ystem is a fundamental building block of many production systems, yet
its throughput is quite difficult to analyze. In this paper we develop
approximate methods for predicting the throughput of unbalanced three
-station assembly systems. We present a distribution-free approach for
the general case, but our approximation can harness closed-form analy
tic results for particular distributions when they exist.