Shanthikumar, J. G.; Tien, C. C. - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 9, pp. 1069-1086
An important aspect of the efficient design of an automatic transfer line is the ability to understand and predict the effects of the system parameters such as the size of the intermediate buffer storage space, the cycle times, failure times, repair times, and scrap rate, on the production rate...