Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material
Flow line design is one of the major tasks in production management. The decision to install a set of machines and buffers is often highly irreversible. It determines both cost and revenue to a large extent. In order to assess the economic impact of any p
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Performance Analysis of Flow Lines with Non-Linear Flow of Material
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Author Prof. Stefan Helber Technical University of Clausthal Institute of Business Administration and Economics Julius-Albert-Str. 2 D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Helber, Stefan, 1963Performance analysis of flow lines with non-linear flow of material/Stefan Helber. p. cm. -- (Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ; 473) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). lSBN-13: 978-3-540-65954-9 e-1SBN-13: 978-3-642-95863-2 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-95863-2
1. Production management--Mathematical models. 2. Production engineering--Mathematical models. 3. Stochastic analysis. I. Title. II. Series. TS155.H374 1999 658.5'001'5118--dc21 99-23638 CIP
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Preface
This book describes methods for the analysis of flow lines with limited buffer capacity. The flow of material is occasionally disrupted due to machine failures or quality problems. The focus is on flow lines with non-linear flow of material, for example because of assembly operations or quality inspections. We describe mathematical approximation techniques that can be used to estimate production rates and inventory levels for a given configuration of machines and buffers. These technical performance measures are linked to cash flows in order to assess the investment in a flow line from an economic point of view. This economic perspective shows that buffer allocation is an extremely important aspect of flow line design. This book has been accepted as a habilitation thesis by the Department of Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitiit in Muni
