The Evaluation for the Mission-Time of Quick Response Manufacturing System

The design iteration is one of the basic characteristics in the product development processes (PDPs). Considering the design iteration and the resource conflict simultaneous, an approach, in which the finite-state Markov model was constructed to describe the PDPs, was presented to evaluate the mission-time of Quick Response Manufacturing System (QRMS). With application of the first arrival time distribution of Markov renewal processes, an algorithm which can evaluate the mission-time distribution has been raised. The case demonstrates the approach to working out parameters in the model; and analyzes the weakness of QRMS.