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PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN ASSEMBLY STATION WITH INPUT FROM MULTIPLE FABRICATION LINES
Author(s) -
RAO P. CHANDRASEKHAR,
SURI RAJAN
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2000.tb00138.x
Subject(s) - fabrication , queue , computer science , line (geometry) , throughput , real time computing , simulation , mathematics , computer network , telecommunications , geometry , medicine , alternative medicine , wireless , pathology
We develop analytical models for performance evaluation of Fabrication/Assembly (F/A) systems. We consider an F/A system that consists of an assembly station with input from K fabrication lines. Each fabrication line consists of one or more fabrication stations. The system is closed with a fixed number of items circulating between each fabrication line and the assembly station. We present algorithms to estimate the throughput and mean queue lengths of such systems with exponential processing times. We then extend our approach to analyze F/A systems with general processing time distributions. Numerical comparisons with simulations demonstrate the accuracy of our approach.