Optimization of a manufacturing system with delivery time and withdrawal right

Sadok Turki, Olivier Bistorin () and Nidhal Rezg ()
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Olivier Bistorin: ICN Business School, LGIPM - Laboratoire de Génie Industriel, de Production et de Maintenance - UL - Université de Lorraine
Nidhal Rezg: LGIPM - Laboratoire de Génie Industriel, de Production et de Maintenance - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: In this paper, we study a manufacturing system composed by a single-product machine, a buffer and a constant demand. A stochastic fluid model is adopted to describe the system and to take into account delivery times and returned products from the customers (withdraw right). The objective of this paper is to determine the optimal buffer level taken into account machine failures, delivery times and withdrawal right. This optimal buffer allows minimizing the sum of inventory, transportation, lost sales and returned products costs. Infinitesimal perturbation analysis method is used for optimizing the proposed system. Using the stochastic fluid model, the trajectories of buffer level are studied and the infinitesimal perturbation analysis estimators are evaluated. These estimators are shown to be unbiased and then they are implanted in an optimization algorithm which determines the optimal buffer level in the presence of delivery time and withdrawal right.

Keywords: Manufacturing system; stochastic fluid model; infinitesimal perturbation analysis; delivery time; withdrawal right (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in WASET (World Association of Science, Engineering and Technology) International Congress, 30 – 31 May, 2013, Tokyo Japan. ⟨10.17265/2328-2142/2017.01.004⟩

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DOI: 10.17265/2328-2142/2017.01.004

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