Abstract
The paper analyzes a manufacturing system with tandem machines producing one part type. The system is periodically stopped for maintenance. The objective is to determine machine production rates so that the inventory and backlog-related expenses could be minimized. We show only a few so-called restricting machines need to be considered. A numerical example is used to demonstrate the solution approach proposed in the paper.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 363-374 |
| Journal | IIE Transactions |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2002 |