Modeling and analysis of a mixed-model assembly line with stochastic operation times

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	Modeling and analysis of a mixed-model assembly line with stochastic operation times
	Zhao, Xiaobo ; Liu, Jianyong ; Ohno, Katsuhisa ; Kotani, Shigenori
	2007-09-01
发表期刊	NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS
ISSN	0894-069X
卷号	54 期号:6 页码:681-691
摘要	We consider a mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) comprised a set of workstations and a conveyor. The workstations are arranged in a serial configuration. The conveyor moves at a constant speed along the workstations. Initial units belonging to different models are successively fed onto the conveyor, and they are moved by the conveyor to pass through the workstations to gradually generate final products. All assembling tasks are manually performed with operation times to be stochastic. An important performance measure of MMALs is overload times that refer to uncompleted operations for operators within their work zones. This paper establishes a method to analyze the expected overload times for MMALs with stochastic operation times. The operation processes of operators form discrete time nonhomogeneous Markov processes with continuous state spaces. For a given daily production schedule, the expected overload times involve in analyzing the Markov processes for finite horizon. Based on some important properties of the performance measure, we propose an efficient approach for calculating the expected overload times. Numerical computations show that the results are very satisfactory. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
关键词	mixed-model assembly line stochastic operation time markov process overload algorithm
DOI	10.1002/nav.20241
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Operations Research & Management Science
WOS类目	Operations Research & Management Science
WOS记录号	WOS:000248747200009
出版者	JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/4752
专题	中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院
通讯作者	Zhao, Xiaobo
作者单位	1.Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Ind Engn, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, Inst Appl Math, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China 3.Aichi Inst Technol, Dept Appl Informat Sci, Toyota 4700392, Japan 4.Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Sch Business Adm, Tokyo 1920397, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Xiaobo,Liu, Jianyong,Ohno, Katsuhisa,et al. Modeling and analysis of a mixed-model assembly line with stochastic operation times[J]. NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS,2007,54(6):681-691.
APA	Zhao, Xiaobo,Liu, Jianyong,Ohno, Katsuhisa,&Kotani, Shigenori.(2007).Modeling and analysis of a mixed-model assembly line with stochastic operation times.NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS,54(6),681-691.
MLA	Zhao, Xiaobo,et al."Modeling and analysis of a mixed-model assembly line with stochastic operation times".NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS 54.6(2007):681-691.