An empirical investigation of the two-moment approximation for production lines

DOI10.1080/00207549408956992MaRDI QIDQ4394348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen G. Powell

Publication date 11 June 1998

Published in International Journal of Production Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00207549408956992

zbMATH Keywords

buffer allocationsteady-state throughputunbalanced serial production lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30)

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