The role of internal storage capacity in fixed cycle production systems

B. Lev and D. I. Toof

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1980, vol. 27, issue 3, 477-487

Abstract: The reliability of a serial production line is optimized with respect to the location of a single buffer. The problem was earlier defined and solved by Soyster and Toof for the special case of an even number of machines all having equal probability of failure. In this paper we generalize the results for any number of machines and remove the restriction of identical machine reliabilities. In addition, an analysis of multibuffer systems is presented with a closed form solution for the reliability when both the number of buffers and their capacity is limited. For the general multibuffer system we present an approach for determining system reliability.

Date: 1980
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