Research Initiation: Parts Routing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems

摘要

The collection of reports resulting from a National Science Foundation grant includes: Decentralized control of service rates in a closed Jackson network; Some resource allocation problems in multi-cell systems; Allocating a joint setup in a multi-cell system; Throughput bounds for closed queueing networks with queue-dependent service rates; Second-order properties of the throughput of a closed queueing network; The optimal input rates to a system of manufacturing cells; Flexible rates routing in manufacturing systems; Optimal run quantities for an assembly system with random yields; and Optimal design scheduling in Jackson networks.