Numerical Methods Applicable to a Production Line with Stochastic Servers.

摘要

A stochastic model of a production line is presented which describes the holding times of successive items at each station in the line. This model admits general distributions of service times. For the case of three stations the model leads to an integral equation for the distribution of interdemand time. A numerical solution is developed for Erlang distributed service times and for uniformly distributed service times. Numerical results are presented and discussed. (Author)