Optimal Acquisition of Automated Flexible Manufacturing Processes

DOI10.1287/OPRE.37.2.288MaRDI QIDQ3820354zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George E. Monahan, T. L. Smunt

Publication date 1989

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/2142/28905

zbMATH Keywords

finite planning horizonfinite- state Markov decision processflexible automationlabor-intensive batch production processoptimal acquisition strategiessimulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90)

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