An upper bound for carriers in a three-workstation closed serial production system operating under production blocking

作者：Kim DS^*; Kulkarni DM; Lin F

来源：IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2002, 47(7): 1134-1138.

DOI：10.1109/TAC.2002.800653

• closed queueing networks
• discrete-event systems
• manufacturing systems
• performance comparison
• queueing systems

In this note, we develop and prove a rule for an upper bound on the optimal number of carriers (with respect to throughput) in a three-workstation closed serial production system with finite buffers, operating under production blocking (blocking-after-service). This system is, in fact, a three server (single server) closed tandem queueing system with finite buffers. Our-assumptions regarding service time distributions are nonrestrictive and include the case of iid random variables.

• 出版日期2002-7