Adaptive policy of buffer allocation and preventive maintenance actions in unreliable production lines

Abstract The buffer allocation problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, and it is an important design problem in manufacturing systems. The research proposed in this paper concerns a product line consisting of n unreliable machines with n − 1 buffers and a preventive maintenance pol...

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Main Author: Paolo Renna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Islamic Azad University 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Industrial Engineering International
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40092-018-0301-7