Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems

Abstract

Factory Design.- Dilemmas in factory design: paradox and paradigm.- Unreliable Production Lines.- Lean buffering in serial production lines with non-exponential machines.- Analysis of flow lines with Cox-2-distributed processing times and limited buffer capacity.- Performance evaluation of production lines with finite buffer capacity producing two different products.- Automated flow lines with shared buffer.- Integrated quality and quantity modeling of a production line.- Stochastic cyclic flow lines with blocking: Markovian models.- Queueing Network Models of Manufacturing Systems.- Performance analysis of multi-server tandem queues with finite buffers and blocking.- An analytical method for the performance evaluation of echelon kanban control systems.- Closed loop two-echelon repairable item systems.- A heuristic to control integrated multi-product multi-machine production-inventory systems with job shop routings and stochastic arrival, set-up and processing times.- Performance analysis of parallel identical machines with a generalized shortest queue arrival mechanism.- A review and comparison of hybrid and pull-type production control strategies.- Stochastic Production Planning and Assembly.- Planning order releases for an assembly system with random operation times.- A multiperiod stochastic production planning and sourcing problem with service level constraints.