Capacity and buffer trade-offs in a remanufacturing system

Hasan Kivanc Aksoy; Surendra M. Gupta

doi:10.1117/12.455276

11 February 2002 Capacity and buffer trade-offs in a remanufacturing system

Proceedings Volume 4569, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing II; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455276
Event: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the tradeoffs between increasing the number of buffers and increasing the capacity at the remanufacturing stations under numerous circumstances on such performance measures as expected total cost, average WIP inventory, throughput and average processing (remanufacturing) time when the remanufacturing stations are operating in uncertain environments. We model the remanufacturing system using an open queueing network with finite buffers and unreliable servers. In order to analyze the queueing network, we use the decomposition principle and expansion methodology. Each server in the system is subject to breakdown and has a finite buffer capacity.

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Hasan Kivanc Aksoy and Surendra M. Gupta "Capacity and buffer trade-offs in a remanufacturing system", Proc. SPIE 4569, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing II, (11 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.455276

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