DocumentCode
2976882
Title
An asymptotic analysis of hierarchical control of manufacturing systems
Author
Soner, H.M. ; Lehoczky, J.P. ; Sethi, S.P. ; Taksar, M.
Author_Institution
Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
fYear
1988
fDate
7-9 Dec 1988
Firstpage
1856
Abstract
An asymptotic analysis of a hierarchical manufacturing system with machines subject to breakdown and repair is presented. The machine fluctuations are much faster than the accumulation and discounting of costs, and this gives rise to a limiting problem in which the stochastic machine availability is replaced by the equilibrium mean availability. The value function for the original problem converges to the value function of the limiting problem. The limiting problem is computationally tractable and sometimes has a closed-form solution
Keywords
hierarchical systems; manufacturing processes; reliability theory; asymptotic analysis; closed-form solution; equilibrium mean availability; hierarchical control; manufacturing systems; reliability theory; stochastic machine availability; value function; Control system analysis; Control systems; Cost function; Electric breakdown; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Optimal control; Production; Pulp manufacturing; Stochastic processes;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 1988., Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Austin, TX
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.1988.194649
Filename
194649
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