Performance analysis of flexible flow shop with parallel manufacturing cells
Performance analysis of flexible flow shop with parallel manufacturing cells
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10.1016/j.cie.2022.108739
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2022-10
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Jinbiao Chen;Huiyu Zhang;Qing-xin Chen;N. Mao;Jiahai Wang
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Jinbiao Chen;Huiyu Zhang;Qing-xin Chen;N. Mao;Jiahai Wang
Performance evaluation for stochastic manufacturing systems is significant for system design optimization, but it is difficult to exactly analyse these systems with general arrival processes and service times. This paper studies a flexible flow shop with parallel manufacturing cells and models it as a queueing network. Parallel manufacturing cells and finite pallets lead to strong dependence among stages, and existing methods cannot be directly employed in this problem. Thus, approximate analysis is proposed to estimate performance measures of the flexible flow shop with parallel manufacturing cells based on two-moment approximations for a parallel-input synchronization station and an aggregation procedure. Numerical studies show the accuracy and the efficiency of the proposed method by comparing it with simulation results of experiments. This work can provide a basis to analyse and design more complex manufacturing systems.