Article ID: | iaor20013199 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 65 |
End Page Number: | 78 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2001 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Ching Wai Ki |
Keywords: | quality & reliability, programming: markov decision |
This paper studies production planning of manufacturing systems of unreliable machines in tandem. The manufacturing system considered here produces one type of product. The demand is assumed to be a Poisson process and the processing time for one unit of product in each machine is exponentially distributed. A broken machine is subject to a sequence of repairing processes. The up time and the repairing time in each phase are assumed to be exponentially distributed. We study the manufacturing system by considering each machine as an individual system with stochastic supply and demand. The Markov Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP) is applied to model the process of supply. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method. We employ (