Date Available
12-7-2011
Year of Publication
2008
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)
Document Type
Thesis
College
Engineering
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Dr. Jingshan Li
Abstract
Many production systems have split and merge operations to increase production capac- ity and variety, improve product quality, and implement product control and scheduling policies. This thesis presents analytical methods to model and analyze split and merge production systems with Bernoulli and exponential reliability machines under circulate, priority and percentage policies. The recursive procedures for performance analysis are de- rived, and the convergence of the procedures and uniqueness of the solutions, along with the structural properties, are proved analytically, and the accuracy of the estimation is justi¯ed numerically with high precision. In addition, comparisons among the e®ects of di®erent policies in system performance are carried out.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Yang, "MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SPLIT AND MERGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS" (2008). University of Kentucky Master's Theses. 523.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/523
