List Books » Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems: Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Authors: J. A. Buzacott
ISBN-13: 9780138475673, ISBN-10: 0138475679
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: October 1992
Edition: 1st Edition
Outlining the major issues that have to be addressed in the design and operation of each type of system, this new text explores the stochastic models of a wide range of manufacturing systems.
It covers flow lines, job shops, transfer lines, flexible manufacturing systems, flexible assembly systems, cellular systems, and more.
For professionals working in the area of manufacturing system modelling.
Preface | ||
1 | Discrete Part Manufacturing Systems | 1 |
1.2 | Classification | 2 |
1.3 | Different Types of Systems | 2 |
1.4 | Management Decisions | 5 |
1.5 | Models | 8 |
1.6 | Managers and Modelers | 16 |
1.7 | Scope of the Book | 17 |
2 | Evolution of Manufacturing System Models: An Example | 19 |
2.1 | Solving Problems Using Models | 19 |
2.2 | Modeling Approach | 20 |
2.3 | Generalizations | 31 |
2.4 | More Features of Actual Situation | 37 |
3 | Single-Stage "Produce-To-Order" Systems | 43 |
3.2 | Capacity and General Performance Relationships | 46 |
3.3 | Single-Stage Single-Class Systems | 54 |
3.4 | Multiple Servers | 77 |
3.5 | Priority Queues | 80 |
3.6 | Implications | 91 |
4 | Single-Stage "Produce-To-Stock" Systems | 98 |
4.2 | Issues in System Design and Operation | 100 |
4.3 | Single-Product-Type Produce-to-Stock Systems | 103 |
4.4 | Multiple-Product-Type Produce-to-Stock Systems | 131 |
4.5 | Produce-to-Stock Systems with Advance Orders | 135 |
4.6 | Implications of Models | 145 |
5 | Flow Lines | 153 |
5.2 | Issues in Flow-Line Design and Operation | 159 |
5.3 | Models of Indexing Lines | 166 |
5.4 | Models of Asynchronous Lines | 176 |
5.5 | Produce-to-Stock Flow Lines | 207 |
5.6 | Flow-Line Systems with Closed-Loop Material Handling | 209 |
5.7 | Implications of Models | 213 |
6 | Transfer Lines | 227 |
6.2 | Issues in Transfer Line Design and Operation | 229 |
6.3 | Nature of Line Stoppages | 231 |
6.4 | Transfer Lines with No Inventory Banks | 236 |
6.5 | Systems Separated by Infinite Inventory Banks | 243 |
6.6 | Synchronized Lines with Finite Capacity Banks | 244 |
6.7 | Asynchronous Transfer Lines with Variable Cycle Times | 277 |
6.8 | Implications of Models | 287 |
7 | Dynamic Job Shops | 298 |
7.2 | Issues in Planning, Control, and Scheduling | 301 |
7.3 | Representation of Job Flow | 306 |
7.4 | Jackson Open Queueing Network Model | 315 |
7.5 | Multiple-Job-Class Open Jackson Queueing Network Model | 322 |
7.6 | Incorporation of Material Handling | 327 |
7.7 | General Job Shop with Local Service Protocols | 330 |
7.8 | Multiple-Class General Job Shop | 343 |
7.9 | Implications of Models | 349 |
8 | Flexible Machining Systems | 357 |
8.2 | Design, Planning and Scheduling of FMS | 361 |
8.3 | Modeling FMS by Queueing Networks | 365 |
8.4 | Single-Class Closed Jackson Queueing Network Model | 368 |
8.5 | General Single-Class Closed Queueing Network Model of FMS | 377 |
8.6 | Multiple-Class Closed Jackson Queueing Network | 385 |
8.7 | Multiple-Class General Queueing Network | 397 |
8.8 | Semiopen Queueing Network Models | 403 |
8.9 | Implications of Models | 404 |
9 | Flexible Assembly Systems | 416 |
9.2 | Design, Planning, and Control of Flexible Assembly Systems | 423 |
9.3 | Material Handling Bottlenecks in Flexible Assembly Systems | 427 |
9.4 | Functionally Identical Assembly Stations with No Information Feedback | 437 |
9.5 | Functionally Identical Assembly Stations with Central Dispatch | 443 |
9.6 | Single-Sequence Flexible Assembly System | 449 |
9.7 | Assembly Systems with Flexible Routing | 452 |
9.8 | Assembly Lines with Strict Kit Sequence Requirements | 456 |
9.9 | Implications of Models | 461 |
10 | Multiple-Cell Manufacturing Systems | 471 |
10.2 | Issues in Design, Planning, and Operation | 474 |
10.3 | Modeling Issues | 476 |
10.4 | Multiple Cells with Free Flow | 477 |
10.5 | Multiple Cells with Free Flow Limited by Blocking | 482 |
10.6 | Multiple Cells with Controlled Dispatch | 485 |
10.7 | Multiple-Cell Systems Coordinated by PA Cards (PAC Systems) | 490 |
10.8 | Multiple-Cell Systems with Assembly Cells | 515 |
10.9 | Insights | 519 |
11 | Unresolved Issues: Directions for Future Research | 530 |
11.2 | System-Level Issues | 530 |
11.3 | Cell-Level Issues | 535 |
A Standard Probability Distributions | 539 | |
B Some Notions of Stochastic Ordering | 543 | |
C Nonparametric Families of Distributions | 545 | |
Index | 547 |