A New Decomposition Approach for Non-Cyclic Continuous Material Flow Lines with a Merging Flow of Material

Stefan Helber () and Hanifa Jusić

Annals of Operations Research, 2004, vol. 125, issue 1, 117-139

Abstract: We extend the decomposition approaches for flow lines with unreliable machines and limited buffer capacity as proposed by Gershwin and refined by Dallery, David, and Xie and by Burman by incorporating a new building block in the decomposition. This new building block is a three-machine, one buffer system which models a merging flow of material. While previous decomposition approaches led to a decomposition of the original network into virtual two-machine lines, we now use both virtual two- and three-machine lines. This requires a new set of decomposition equations for the virtual machines of the two-machine lines that surround the new building block modelling the merge. We present these equations, show how to solve them in an algorithm and present numerical results for non-cyclic networks in order to determine production rate and inventory level estimates. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: flow line; decomposition; continuous material; merge system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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