A Sub-Optimal Control Policy in a Two-Product Door Manufacturing Line With Geometric Reliability Machines

Kang, Ningxuan; Zhao, Cong; Li, Jingshan; Zheng, Liang

doi:10.1109/lra.2016.2582925

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“…Such works are extended to lines with setups and assembly systems in [35] and [36], respectively. Optimal production control has been investigated in [37] and [38] for partially flexible systems, where dedicated downstream lines are supplied by a flexible upstream line with batch operation and setups, using Bernoulli and geometric models, respectively.…”

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Scheduling policies in flexible Bernoulli lines with dedicated finite buffers

Park

Feng

2018

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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This paper is devoted to studying scheduling policies in flexible serial lines with two Bernoulli machines and dedicated finite buffers. Priority, cyclic and work-in-process (WIP)-based scheduling policies are investigated. For small scale systems, exact solutions are derived using Markov chain models. For larger ones, a flexible line is decomposed into multiple interacting dedicated serial lines, and iteration procedures are introduced to approximate system production rate. Through extensive numerical experiments, it is shown that the approximation methods result in acceptable accuracy in throughput estimation. In addition, system-theoretic properties such as asymptotic behavior, reversibility, and monotonicity, as well as impact of buffer capacities are discussed, and comparisons of the scheduling policies are carried out.

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