Analysis of multi-product manufacturing systems with homogeneous exponential machines

This paper is devoted to modeling and analysis of multi-product manufacturing systems with homogeneous exponential machines and finite buffers. In such systems, multiple product types are processed with different speeds, but the processing time for each product type is the same on all machines. Buffers are shared for all products. Analytical methods to analyze the system performance are developed, and system-theoretic properties are investigated. To improve the performance of such systems, bottleneck analysis is carried out to identify the machine and/or product whose improvement will lead to the largest improvement in system throughput.