Article ID: | iaor20012253 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 495 |
End Page Number: | 524 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
Journal: | International Transactions in Operational Research |
Authors: | Papadopoulos H.T., Vidalis M.I. |
This paper is concerned with the analysis of reliable production lines. The service times at each station of the line are assumed to follow the Coxian-2 distribution. Raw material arrives at the first station of the line which is assumed that is never empty. Buffers of non-identical capacities are allowed between successive stations. The structure of the transition matrices of these specific type of production lines is examined and a recursive algorithm is developed for generating them, for any number of stations