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LOGISTICS OF PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY
Edited by S.C. Graves, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and P.H. Zipkin

CHAPTER 5
Performance Evaluation of Production Networks
R. Suri, J.L. Sanders and M. Kamath

1. Introduction*  

2. Workcenter with identical machines and a single queue

3. Tandem production line

4. Tree-structured manufacturing systems (assembly networks)

5. Open networks of queues

6. Closed networks of queues

7. Queueing models for machine-operator interference

8. Advanced topics

Acknowledgements

References

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