Analysis of multi-product manufacturing systems with arbitrary processing times

Ningxuan Kang, Li Zheng and Jingshan Li

International Journal of Production Research, 2015, vol. 53, issue 3, 983-1001

Abstract: Multi-product systems with finite buffers and sequence-dependent set-up times are quite common in modern manufacturing industry. In practice, the distribution of machine processing time could be arbitrary, while in existing literature it is often assumed to follow an exponential distribution. In this paper, we develop an analytical method to study the multi-product manufacturing systems with non-exponential processing times. An embedded Markov chain model is constructed and two approximation methods, Gamma estimation and linear approximation, are proposed. The model is validated with high accuracy by numerical experiments and practical data from an automotive assembly system.

Date: 2015
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