Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis

✍ Scribed by Guy L. Curry, Richard M. Feldman (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text presents the practical application of queueing theory results for the design and analysis of manufacturing and production systems. This textbook makes accessible to undergraduates and beginning graduates many of the seemingly esoteric results of queueing theory. In an effort to apply queueing theory to practical problems, there has been considerable research over the previous few decades in developing reasonable approximations of queueing results. This text takes full advantage of these results and indicates how to apply queueing approximations for the analysis of manufacturing systems. Support is provided through the web site http://msma.tamu.edu. Students will have access to the answers of odd numbered problems and instructors will be provided with a full solutions manual, Excel files when needed for homework, and computer programs using Mathematica that can be used to solve homework and develop additional problems or term projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Basic Probability Review....Pages 1-43
Introduction to Factory Models....Pages 45-67
Single Workstation Factory Models....Pages 69-108
Processing Time Variability....Pages 109-123
Multiple-Stage Single-Product Factory Models....Pages 125-157
Multiple Product Factory Models....Pages 159-196
Models of Various Forms of Batching....Pages 197-240
WIP Limiting Control Strategies....Pages 241-280
Serial Limited Buffer Models....Pages 281-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-327

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Production/Logistics; Simulation and Modeling; Complexity