Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

Barış Tan

George Liberopoulos

James MacGregor Smith

Stanley B. Gershwin

Manufacturing systems rarely perform exactly as expected and predicted. Unexpected events, such as order changes, equipment failures and product defects, affect the performance of the system and complicate decision-making. This volume is devoted to the development of analytical methods aiming at responding to variability in a way that limits its corrupting effects on system performance. The book includes fifteen novel chapters that mostly focus on the development and analysis of performance evaluation models of manufacturing systems using decomposition-based methods, Markovian and queuing analysis, simulation, and inventory control approaches. They are organized into four distinct sections to reflect their shared viewpoints: factory design, unreliable production lines, queuing network models, production planning and assembly.

Advances in Design, Performance Evaluation, and Control Issues

Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems

Diomidis Spinellis

Michael E. J. O'Kelly

Michael J. Vidalis

This book provides a complete overview of production systems and describes the best approaches to analyze their performance. Written by experts in the field, this work also presents numerous techniques that can be used to describe, model, and optimize the performance of various types of production lines. The book is intended for researchers, production managers, and graduate students in industrial, mechanical, and systems engineering.

Analysis and Design of Discrete Part Production Lines

Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos

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