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The Throughput of Multistation Production Lines with No Intermediate Buffers

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  • Hrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

    (University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece)

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This paper concerns the throughput rate of multistation reliable production lines with no intermediate buffers. Processing times at the service stations are independent, exponential random variables, possibly with different means. We extend the work started in E. J. Muth (Muth, E. J. 1984. Stochastic processes and their network representations associated with production line queueing model. Eur. J. Opnl. Res. 15 63–83.) to provide an algorithm that allows for the efficient computation of longer lines and to provide results for the nonidentical server case. A result is presented which provides the distribution function of the holding time at the stations.

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  • Hrissoleon T. Papadopoulos, 1995. "The Throughput of Multistation Production Lines with No Intermediate Buffers," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 43(4), pages 712-715, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:43:y:1995:i:4:p:712-715
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.43.4.712
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    1. H. T. Papadopoulos, 1998. "Analysis of production lines with Coxian service times and no intermediate buffers," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(7), pages 669-685, October.
    2. Konstantinos S. Boulas & Georgios D. Dounias & Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos, 2023. "A hybrid evolutionary algorithm approach for estimating the throughput of short reliable approximately balanced production lines," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 823-852, February.
    3. Tan, Baris, 1997. "Variance of the throughput of an N-station production line with no intermediate buffers and time dependent failures," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 101(3), pages 560-576, September.
    4. Papadopoulos, Hrissoleon T., 1996. "An analytic formula for the mean throughput of K-station production lines with no intermediate buffers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 91(3), pages 481-494, June.
    5. Papadopoulos, H. T., 1998. "An approximate method for calculating the mean sojourn time of K-station production lines with no intermediate buffers," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(3), pages 297-305, May.

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