Automatic Transfer Lines With Buffer Stocks

Buzacott, John A.

doi:10.1080/00207546708929751

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“…Many other references are listed or described in these reviews. In addition, excellent surveys can be found in theses, including those by Ammar (1980), Anderson (1968), Boxma (1977), Buzacott (1967a), Dattatreya (1978), De Koster (1988a), Dudick (1979), Jafari (1982), Liu (1990), Schick (Schick and Gershwin, 1978), Sheskin (1974), Wiley (1981), as well as the monograph of Newell (1979). Buzacott (1967a) describes the earliest Russian work.…”

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“…In addition, excellent surveys can be found in theses, including those by Ammar (1980), Anderson (1968), Boxma (1977), Buzacott (1967a), Dattatreya (1978), De Koster (1988a), Dudick (1979), Jafari (1982), Liu (1990), Schick (Schick and Gershwin, 1978), Sheskin (1974), Wiley (1981), as well as the monograph of Newell (1979). Buzacott (1967a) describes the earliest Russian work. Because this work is difficult to obtain, and to translate, we quote from Buzacott (1967a): It is not known when buffer stocks were first used to improve the efficiency of an automatic transfer line.…”

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“…Analytic solutions of special cases of the models appear in Buzacott (1967a). The solution of the geometric-repair-time-geometric-failure-time line is of the form of equation (48) (with a single term); the solution of the constant-repair-time-geometric-failure-time line may also be of that form, but it is rather complicated.…”

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“…Buzacott (1967a) describes the earliest Russian work. Because this work is difficult to obtain, and to translate, we quote from Buzacott (1967a): It is not known when buffer stocks were first used to improve the efficiency of an automatic transfer line. It seems to have been about 1946 in Russia.…”

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“…In both models, production rate is a saturating function of buffer size. A more general model is also described in Buzacott (1967a): one with general repair time distributions. Because of the influence of Buzacott's work, we refer to synchronous geometricrepair-time-geometric-failure-time flow models as Buzacott-type models in the rest of the paper.…”

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The output of an N‐stage line with unlimited buffer space between stages is a function of the number of repair crews assigned to the line and the failure and repair rates of the individual stages. Rules for assigning crews that are examined include preference for slow stages and randomization. It is shown that appropriate randomization maximizes output in the 2 stage, 1 crew case. Furthermore, in a large system with slower stages having slower repair rates, the best way to dedicate repairmen is to assign one man to each slow stage in so far as possible and to pair remaining stages in combinations of slowest‐fastest, next slowest‐next fastest, etc.

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