Reducing work-in-process inventory in certain classes of flexible manufacturing systems

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(86)90189-XzbMath0605.90064MaRDI QIDQ1084010

Kathryn E. Stecke, J. George Shanthikumar

Publication date: 1986

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

flexible manufacturing systemsdynamic problemwork-in-process inventorybalancing workloadsopen and closed queueing networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Production models (90B30) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20)

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