Title
Closed production lines with arbitrary models of machine reliability
Abstract
Closed production lines have been analyzed in the literature under the assumption that the machines obey either the Bernoulli or exponential reliability models. Empirical evidence indicates, however, that manufacturing equipment on the factory floor often has the coefficients of variation of up- and downtime less than 1; therefore, the statistics of machine reliability may be neither Bernoulli nor exponential. This paper analyzes the performance, system-theoretic, and improvability properties of closed production lines with machines having up- and downtime distributed according to any unimodal distribution, provided that the coefficients of variation are less than or equal to 1.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/COASE.2008.4626496
Arlington, VA
Keywords
Field
DocType
exponential distribution,production equipment,production management,reliability,Bernoulli reliability,closed production line,exponential reliability,factory floor,machine reliability,manufacturing equipment,statistics,unimodal distribution,Closed production line,improvability,unreliable machines
Production manager,Applied mathematics,Exponential function,Factory,Automation,Production line,Exponential distribution,Engineering,Downtime,Reliability engineering,Bernoulli's principle
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-8070
978-1-4244-2023-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephan Biller113316.24
Samuel P. Marin25517.97
Semyon M. Meerkov3437.19
Liang Zhang412117.53