Reliability analysis of production systems with buffer storage |
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| Authors: | E. A. ELSAYED RICHARD E. TURLEY |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering , Rutgers University , Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, U.S.A.;2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering , University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we present a two-stage production line with buffer storage where each stage may fail in two failure modes. We consider three repair policies; namely, (I) Policy I: failures are repaired with equal probabilities, (2) Policy II: priority of repair is assigned to failures of mode 1 over mode 2, and (3) Policy III: priority of repair is placed on mode 2. Productivity of system operating under policy I is higher than that of system operating under policies II and III.Also,Policy III shows a higher productivity than Policy II. |
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