Reducing work-in-process inventory in certain classes of flexible manufacturing systems
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Reducing work-in-process inventory in certain classes of flexible manufacturing systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 0605.90064
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(86)90189-X
author: Kathryn E. Stecke
author: J. George Shanthikumar
published in: European Journal of Operational Research
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: We establish that maintaining a balanced workload on each machine over time stochastically minimizes the work-in-process inventory in certain types on flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) with finite or infinite common input buffer storage and an ample buffer et each machine. The results obtained here complement those obtained by \textit{K. E. Stecke} and \textit{T. L. Morin} [ibid. 20, 68-82 (1985; Zbl 0578.90035)], in which it is established that balancing workloads maximizes expected production, again for the same, particular types of FMSs. The cited paper treats a static FMS loading problem, while this paper addresses a dynamic problem which considers three strategies to control the release of parts into the system.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60K20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B22
zbMATH DE Number: 3978797
zbMATH Keywords: open and closed queueing networks
zbMATH Keywords: work-in-process inventory
zbMATH Keywords: flexible manufacturing systems
zbMATH Keywords: balancing workloads
zbMATH Keywords: dynamic problem
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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