TY - JOUR
T1 - Transient Performance Analysis of Closed Production Lines With Bernoulli Machines, Finite Buffers, and Carriers
AU - Jia, Zhiyang
AU - Zhang, Liang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - In many manufacturing systems, each piece of intermediate product is attached to a dedicated carrier (e.g., pallet, skid, fixture, etc.) throughout the entire process for material handling and/or transportation purposes. Once a part finishes all processing steps, the associated carrier will be removed and returned to the front of the production process to pick up new incoming parts. We referred to production systems operating in such manner as "closed." In the current literature, available results on closed production systems are very limited. In this paper, we study transient performance of closed serial lines with machines that operate according to the Bernoulli reliability model. Specifically, exact mathematical model for the system considered is derived based on Markov analysis. Then, formulas for calculating the system's performance measures during transients are obtained based on the model. An approximation method is proposed to estimate a closed Bernoulli line's performance in completing a finite production run. Finally, properties of finite production run-based closed Bernoulli lines during transient are investigated.
AB - In many manufacturing systems, each piece of intermediate product is attached to a dedicated carrier (e.g., pallet, skid, fixture, etc.) throughout the entire process for material handling and/or transportation purposes. Once a part finishes all processing steps, the associated carrier will be removed and returned to the front of the production process to pick up new incoming parts. We referred to production systems operating in such manner as "closed." In the current literature, available results on closed production systems are very limited. In this paper, we study transient performance of closed serial lines with machines that operate according to the Bernoulli reliability model. Specifically, exact mathematical model for the system considered is derived based on Markov analysis. Then, formulas for calculating the system's performance measures during transients are obtained based on the model. An approximation method is proposed to estimate a closed Bernoulli line's performance in completing a finite production run. Finally, properties of finite production run-based closed Bernoulli lines during transient are investigated.
KW - Bernoulli machine
KW - carriers
KW - closed production line
KW - transient analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042186351&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LRA.2017.2713247
DO - 10.1109/LRA.2017.2713247
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042186351
SN - 2377-3766
VL - 2
SP - 1893
EP - 1900
JO - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
JF - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 7942097
ER -