An analytic formula for the mean throughput of \(K\)-station production lines with no intermediate buffers

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(95)00113-1zbMath0924.90086OpenAlexW1985468884MaRDI QIDQ1278238

H. T. Papadopoulos

Publication date: 14 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(95)00113-1

zbMATH Keywords

performance evaluationstochastic modellingblocking phenomenonGERT networksproduction line systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30)

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