Markovian approximation for manufacturing systems of unreliable machines in tandem

DOI<65::AID-NAV4>3.0.CO;2-5 10.1002/1520-6750(200102)48:1<65::AID-NAV4>3.0.CO;2-5zbMath0981.90015OpenAlexW2002140757MaRDI QIDQ2708226

Wai-Ki Ching

Publication date: 17 April 2001

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6750(200102)48:1<65::aid-nav4>3.0.co;2-5

zbMATH Keywords

manufacturing systemssteady state probability distributionunreliable machines in tandemhedging point production policiesMrakov modulated Poisson process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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