Analysis of assembly/disassembly queueing networks with blocking after service and general service times

Michael Manitz ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2015, vol. 226, issue 1, 417-441

Abstract: We consider A/D queueing networks with blocking. Our paper extends the work of Manitz (Comput Oper Res 35:2520–2536, 2008 ) by considering disassembly operations. In addition to that, we give the variability measures of the output process at every station. By considering general service times, it generalizes the work of Gershwin and Burman (Ann Oper Res 93:91–115, 2000 ). Station failures can be incorporated with the completion-time concept proposed by Gaver (J R Stat Soc 24:73–90, 1962 ). A comparison to various simulation results shows that the queueing-model based approach presented in this paper yields very good approximations of performance measures. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Queueing network; Assembly lines; Decomposition; Queueing models; Performance evaluation; Throughput (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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