An upper bound for carriers in a three-workstation closed serial production system operating under production blocking

Author

Kim, David S. ; Kulkarni, Devadatta M. ; Lin, Feng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Manuf. Eng., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

Volume

47

Issue

7

fYear

2002

fDate

7/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1134

Lastpage

1138

Abstract

We develop and prove a rule for an upper bound on the optimal number of carriers (with respect to throughput) in a three-workstation closed serial production system with finite buffers, operating under production blocking (blocking-after-service). This system is, in fact, a three server (single server) closed tandem queueing system with finite buffers. Our assumptions regarding service time distributions are nonrestrictive and include the case of iid random variables

Keywords

discrete event systems; production control; queueing theory; stochastic systems; carriers; discrete-event systems; finite buffers; manufacturing systems; production blocking; service time distributions; three server closed tandem queueing system; three-workstation closed serial production system; upper bound; Assembly systems; Job production systems; Manufacturing industries; Network servers; Production systems; Random variables; Throughput; Upper bound; Vehicles; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9286

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAC.2002.800653

Filename

1017558