Article ID: | iaor1988975 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Volume: | 17 |
Start Page Number: | 249 |
End Page Number: | 269 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1989 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Yeralan Sencer, Dieck Antonio J. |
Dynamic stage repair policies where the stage repair probabilities are determined by the number of items in the buffer are examined through a model of a manufacturing system with two unreliable workstages connected by a minimal intermediate storage buffer. Definitions for workstage availability and line balance are extended for sequential manufacturing systems with dynamic repair policies. A measure for stage repair inputs and a general form of dynamic stage repair policies are presented. The steady-state probabilities of the resultant state-inhomogeneous Markov chain are computed by an efficient solution procedure. Insights obtained from extensive numerical studies are illustrated and discussed.