Abstract
The operating behavior of non-automated reliable serial production lines that are either individually or jointly imbalanced in terms of their operation time means, coefficients of variation and/or buffer sizes are investigated in this paper. Simulations are carried out on the non-steady state mode of operation with various values of line length, buffer storage size, degree of imbalance and patterns of imbalance. Idle time and average buffer level output data are generated and analyzed. The results show that for the lines simulated the transient idle time is larger than the steady-state counterpart, whereas the opposite is true for the transient average buffer level. In addition, a longer line extends the transient idle time duration and as the degree of imbalance goes up, a shorter transient period is observed.
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