Performance analysis of an assembly station with input from multiple fabrication lines

Performance analysis of an assembly station with input from multiple fabrication lines

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Article ID: iaor20012261
Country: United States
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 283
End Page Number: 302
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Journal: Production and Operations Management
Authors: ,
Keywords: queues: applications, simulation: applications
Abstract:

We develop analytical models for performance evaluation of Fabrication/Assembly (F/A) systems. We consider an F/A system that consists of an assembly station with input from K fabrication lines. Each fabrication line consists of one or more fabrication stations. The system is closed with a fixed number of items circulating between each fabrication line and the assembly station. We present algorithms to estimate the throughput and mean queue lengths of such systems with exponential processing times. We then extend our approach to analyze F/A systems with general processing time distributions. Numerical comparisons with simulations demonstrate the accuracy of our approach.

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