Efficiency and production rate of a transfer line with two machines and a finite storage buffer

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(82)90038-8zbMath0475.90035MaRDI QIDQ1159561

Oded Berman

Publication date: 1982

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1309

zbMATH Keywords

efficiency; performance measures; Markov model; failure; production rate; repair; transfer line; steady state probabilities; Erlang service time distribution; finite storage size buffer; two unreliable machines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research

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