Article ID: | iaor20108875 |
Volume: | 182 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 119 |
End Page Number: | 131 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Zhang Liang, Meerkov M |
Keywords: | production |
Serial production lines with machines having their quality parameters monotonically decreasing as a function of their efficiencies are analyzed. The Bernoulli reliability and quality models are assumed. It is shown that in such systems the production rate of good parts is a non-monotonic function with respect to machine efficiencies. Thus, bottlenecks may be eliminated by either increasing