Liu, Jialu; Yang, Sheng; Wu, Aiguo; Hu, S. Jack - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 2, pp. 296-304
This paper models and analyzes the throughput of a two-stage manufacturing system with multiple independent unreliable machines at each stage and one finite-sized buffer between the stages. The machines follow exponential operation, failure, and repair processes. Most of the literature uses...