MACHINERY - Reliability - PROBABILITY - Queueing Theory - SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - Heuristic Programming;
D O I:
10.1080/00207548708919865
中图分类号:
T [工业技术];
学科分类号:
08 ;
摘要:
In this paper multi-stage flow lines with intermediate buffers are approximated by two-stage lines by using repeated aggregation. The aggregation method uses restricted information of the output pattern of two-stage lines. The method is tested for the case where all production units are unreliable with exponential life- and repair-times. It appears that it performs well for most cases, provided we aggregate in the correct sequence.