Article ID: | iaor1993103 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 95 |
End Page Number: | 109 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1992 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Pourbabai B. |
Keywords: | production |
An optimal strategy for selection of the required local storages of the workstations and transporter stations of a finite capacity flexible assembly line system is presented while controlling the bottleneck problem. For this purpose, a mixed non-Markovian queueing network with infinite capacity nodes is presented to model its performance, a stochastic optimization model is provided and a heuristic algorithm is developed for solving it. Finally, an example is presented and the approximation results are compared with those from a simulation study.