Title :
A queueing approach to manufacturing flow control models
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manuf. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA
Abstract :
Presents a new method developed to study the problem of optimal production control in failure prone manufacturing systems. The key idea of the method is to explore a relationship of the failure prone manufacturing systems to some simple queueing systems. By using this relationship the author can easily evaluate cost functions based on existing results in queueing theory and some simple level crossing techniques. In addition to its simplicity, the method is applicable to non-Markovian systems while previous methods are mainly limited to Markovian systems. Several examples are provided to illustrate the basic idea of the method and to which systems it may be applied
Keywords :
differential equations; minimisation; optimal control; probability; production control; queueing theory; cost functions; failure prone manufacturing systems; level crossing techniques; manufacturing flow control models; nonMarkovian systems; optimal production control; queueing approach; Control systems; Cost function; Differential equations; Manufacturing systems; Optimal control; Production; Pulp manufacturing; Queueing analysis; Steady-state; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1995., Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2685-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1995.479008
