• DocumentCode
    385014
  • Title

    Dynamic behaviour of N-stage transfer lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers

  • Author

    Eva, WESFREID

  • Author_Institution
    Inria, Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay Cedex
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    31503
  • Firstpage
    973
  • Lastpage
    976
  • Abstract
    An important class of production systems are modeled by buffered transfer lines with unreliable workstations. The system state consists of the operational condition of the workstations and the levels of the material in the buffers. The purpose of this paper is to study the DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF N-stage transfer lines. We show that every dynamic state converges asymptotically towards a steady state. We estimate the speed of convergence.
  • Keywords
    Buffer storage; Convergence; Manufacturing systems; Material storage; Partial differential equations; Probability distribution; Production systems; Random processes; Steady-state; Workstations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation. Proceedings. 1986 IEEE International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.1986.1087563
  • Filename
    1087563