A practical model of Heineken's bottle filling line with dependent failures

被引：12
作者：
Cooke, RM [1 ]
Bosma, A [1 ]
Härte, F [1 ]
机构：
[1] Delft Univ Technol, Delft Inst Appl Math, Dept Math Applicat Decis Theory, NL-2600 GA Delft, Netherlands
来源：
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH | 2005年 / 164卷 / 02期
关键词：
production/scheduling; a production line with dependent machine failures; joint unavailability; failure-repair process; uncertainty analysis;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ejor.2004.01.018
中图分类号：
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号：
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要：
This article describes a mass balance production line model based on constant machine rates, fixed finite buffer size and stochastic failure and repair behavior. Failure and repair processes need not be exponential and need not be independent. The model is easy to initialize with field data and we report favorable results from a validation exercise at Heineken Brewery. This article presents a new diagnostic for distance to infinite buffer equilibrium and a new test for independence of failure-repair processes are derived. It is shown that the stochastic fluctuations in a typical line are large, and machine unreliability can perturb the line's design. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：491 / 504
页数：14
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