| Article ID: | iaor1988478 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Start Page Number: | 155 |
| End Page Number: | 167 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Shanthikumar J. George, Yao David D. |
Consider a manufacturing system consisting of multiple cells; each cell processes a certain type of part family. For such systems, we study the problem of optimally allocating a joint setup among these cells. The production process of each cell is modelled by a birth process. Certain monotonicity properties of these birth process are established and used to show that the efficient discrete marginal allocation approach of Fox can be applied here.