| Article ID: | iaor198886 |
| Country: | France |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 137 |
| End Page Number: | 151 |
| Publication Date: | May 1987 |
| Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
| Authors: | Widmer M. |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement, production: FMS |
Few of known mathematical methods to compute the flexible manufacturing systems performances take in account perturbations disturbing the smooth working of the factory. This paper describes a simple modelling for these perturbations and presents how to transform the performance evaluation formulas based on the queuing network theory. The last section compares the analytical results with simulation performances.