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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Transient Analysis of a Re-entrant Manufacturing System
Authors : Abdulrahman Seleim, Hoda A. ElMaraghy
Published in: Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Transient and dynamic analysis of manufacturing systems is becoming important especially during ramp-up periods and for systems with frequent changeovers. In this paper, the transient and dynamic behavior of a simple re-entrant manufacturing system is studied. The behavior of the system is analyzed for six different cases with different relationships between the operations’ processing times. The parameters included in the study are the operations’ processing times and the number of pallets in the system. The analysis identifies cases where complex behavior takes place as well as the parameter values controlling that behavior.