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Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems

Advances in Design, Performance Evaluation, and Control Issues

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  • © 2006

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Factory Design

  2. Unreliable Production Lines

  3. Queueing Network Models of Manufacturing Systems

  4. Stochastic Production Planning and Assembly

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Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and predicted. Unexpected events, such as order changes, equipment failures and product defects, affect the performance of the system and complicate decision-making. This volume is devoted to the development of analytical methods aiming at responding to variability in a way that limits its corrupting effects on system performance. The book includes fifteen novel chapters that mostly focus on the development and analysis of performance evaluation models of manufacturing systems using decomposition-based methods, Markovian and queuing analysis, simulation, and inventory control approaches. They are organized into four distinct sections to reflect their shared viewpoints: factory design, unreliable production lines, queuing network models, production planning and assembly.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

    George Liberopoulos

  • Department of Economic Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

  • Graduate School of Business, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey

    Barış Tan

  • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    J. M. Smith

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Stanley B. Gershwin

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