Bernoulli production lines with quality-quantity coupling machines: monotonicity properties and bottlenecks

Semyon Meerkov () and Liang Zhang ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2011, vol. 182, issue 1, 119-131

Abstract: Serial production lines with machines having their quality parameters monotonically decreasing as a function of their efficiencies are analyzed. The Bernoulli reliability and quality models are assumed. It is shown that in such systems the production rate of good parts is a non-monotonic function with respect to machine efficiencies. Thus, bottlenecks may be eliminated by either increasing or decreasing machine efficiency, depending on the operating point. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

Keywords: Production lines; Bernoulli reliability and quality models; Quality-quantity coupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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