Article ID: | iaor20013255 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 691 |
End Page Number: | 710 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Papadopoulos H.T., Vidalis M.I. |
Keywords: | buffer allocation |
In this work, we investigate the optimal buffer allocation in short mu-balanced production lines consisting of machines that are subject to breakdown. Repair times and times to failure are assumed exponential, wheras service times are allowed to follow the Erlang-k distribution (with k=1, 2, 4 and 8). By an improved enumeration procedure and applying the evaluative algorithm of Heavey