The impact of buffering strategies on the performance of production line systems |
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| Authors: | K. C. SO |
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| Affiliation: | Graduate School of Management , University of California , Irvine, California, 92717, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the effect of different buffering strategies on the performance of production line systems. Three models of different buffering strategies are studied. Each buffering strategy represents a different degree or flexibility of the storage buffers in the system. We first prove the analytical result that system throughput increases with the degree of flexibility for the three models in this study. Simulation results are then presented to compare the performance of the three models under different system configurations. The results provide useful information for evaluating different design alternatives for a production line. |
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