Title
Estimating Cycle Time Percentile Curves For Manufacturing Systems Via Simulation
Abstract
Cycle time-throughput (CT-TH) percentile curves quantify the relationship between percentiles of cycle time and factory throughput, and they can play an important role in strategic planning for manufacturing systems. In this paper, a highly flexible distribution, the generalized gamma, is used to represent the underlying distribution of cycle time. To obtain CT-TH percentile curves, we use a factory simulation to fit metamodels for the first three CT-TH moment curves throughout the throughput range of interest, determine the parameters of the generalized gamma by matching moments, and obtain any percentile of interest by inverting the distribution. To insure efficiency and control estimation error, simulation experiments are built up sequentially using a multistage procedure. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1287/ijoc.1080.0272
INFORMS JOURNAL ON COMPUTING
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete event simulation, response surface modeling, design of experiments, semiconductor manufacturing, queueing
Mathematical optimization,Manufacturing systems,Semiconductor device fabrication,Queueing theory,Throughput,Response surface modeling,Mathematics,Percentile,Design of experiments,Discrete event simulation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1091-9856
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.75
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Yang1477.21
Bruce E. Ankenman214518.19
Barry L. Nelson31876257.62