| Article ID: | iaor20011733 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 91 |
| End Page Number: | 115 |
| Publication Date: | May 2000 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Gershwin Stanley B., Burman Mitchell H. |
| Keywords: | manufacturing industries |
This paper presents a decomposition method for analyzing assembly/disassembly manufacturing systems with continuous material, exponential repair and failure time distributions, and processing times that differ from machine to machine. Decomposition equations are derived, an algorithm is developed, special cases are explored, and numerical results are discussed.