An assembly cell with an automated quality control station: A finite capacity and generally distributed processing times

✍ Scribed by B. Pourbabai

• Book ID: 103930617
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 496 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/0898-1221(89)90217-4

✦ Synopsis

The performance of an assembly cell consisting of a set of machines, a finite capacity local storage, an automated quality control station, a loading station and an unloading station is modeled by an M/G/IK queuing system with a Poisson input, a single server, generally distributed processing times, a buffer of size K, the first come first served queuing discipline, and with a fixed delay Bernoulli feedback mechanism, in steady state. In a queuing system with a fixed delay Bernoulli feedback mechanism, a fraction of the departing units will merge with the incoming arrival process to be reprocessed, after being delayed for a fixed length of time. The performance this system is approximated by a recursive algorithm. Furthermore, approximation outcomes are compared against those from a simulation study.