• DocumentCode
    1127231
  • Title

    Approximate Analysis of Reentrant Lines With Bernoulli Reliability Model

  • Author

    Wang, Chong ; Li, Jingshan

  • Author_Institution
    Central Meas. Services, Cummins, Inc., Columbus, IN, USA
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    708
  • Lastpage
    715
  • Abstract
    Reentrant lines are widely used in many manufacturing systems. In this paper, we present an iterative method to approximate the performance of reentrant lines with Bernoulli reliability model under last buffer first serve (LBFS) scheduling policy. Recursive procedure to estimate the production rates of reentrant lines is developed. A case study of an automotive ignition component line with reentrant washing operations is introduced to illustrate the applicability of the method.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; iterative methods; manufacturing systems; production management; reliability; Bernoulli reliability model; approximate analysis; automotive ignition component line; iterative method; last buffer first serve scheduling policy; manufacturing system; production rates; recursive procedure; reentrant lines; reentrant washing operation; Bernoulli reliability; last buffer first serve (LBFS); production rate; reentrant lines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1545-5955
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASE.2009.2021463
  • Filename
    5159353