| Article ID: | iaor19971345 |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 17 |
| End Page Number: | 27 |
| Publication Date: | May 1996 |
| Journal: | Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Gopalan M.N., Kumar U. Dinesh |
| Keywords: | production |
An assembly-like production system which has two parallel stations in the first stage followed by a single station in the second stage is analysed to study the various measures of system performance. A mathematical model is developed using semi-regenerative phenomena and system of convolution integral equations satisfied by various state probabilities are obtained. An iterative numerical technique is used to solve the system of integral equations obtained.