A simulated annealing approach for buffer allocation in reliable production lines

Diomidis Spinellis () and Chrissoleon Papadopoulos ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2000, vol. 93, issue 1, 373-384

Abstract: We describe a simulated annealing approach for solving the buffer allocation problem in reliable production lines. The problem entails the determination of near optimal buffer allocation plans in large production lines with the objective of maximizing their average throughput. The latter is calculated utilizing a decomposition method. The allocation plan is calculated subject to a given amount of total buffer slots in a computationally efficient way. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000

Keywords: simulated annealing; production lines; buffer allocation; decomposition method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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