TY - JOUR
T1 - Transient analysis of serial production lines with perishable products
T2 - Bernoulli reliability model
AU - Ju, Feng
AU - Li, Jingshan
AU - Horst, John A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Sceince Foundation under Grant CMMI-1063656 and in part by the National Institute of Standards and Technology under Grant 70NANB14H260. Recommended by Associate Editor L. H. Lee.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - Manufacturing systems with perishable products are widely observed in practice (e.g., food industry, biochemical productions, battery and semiconductor manufacturing). In such systems, the quality of the product is highly affected by its exposure time while waiting for the next operation, i.e., the residence time of intermediate parts within the system. Such a time should be strictly limited in order to ensure the product usability. The parts that reach the maximum allowable residence time need to be scrapped, thus impeding the production. To achieve an efficient production, the time-dependent or transient analysis is important to uncover the underlying principles governing production operations. In this paper, a serial production line model with two Bernoulli reliability machines, a finite buffer and perishable products is presented to analyze the transient behavior of such systems. The analytical formulas are derived to evaluate transient performance, and structural properties are investigated to study the effect of system parameters. In addition, using the model, we address problems of settling time estimation and production control to demonstrate the importance of the proposed method for transient analysis.
AB - Manufacturing systems with perishable products are widely observed in practice (e.g., food industry, biochemical productions, battery and semiconductor manufacturing). In such systems, the quality of the product is highly affected by its exposure time while waiting for the next operation, i.e., the residence time of intermediate parts within the system. Such a time should be strictly limited in order to ensure the product usability. The parts that reach the maximum allowable residence time need to be scrapped, thus impeding the production. To achieve an efficient production, the time-dependent or transient analysis is important to uncover the underlying principles governing production operations. In this paper, a serial production line model with two Bernoulli reliability machines, a finite buffer and perishable products is presented to analyze the transient behavior of such systems. The analytical formulas are derived to evaluate transient performance, and structural properties are investigated to study the effect of system parameters. In addition, using the model, we address problems of settling time estimation and production control to demonstrate the importance of the proposed method for transient analysis.
KW - Bernoulli machine
KW - perishable part
KW - production control
KW - residence time
KW - settling time
KW - transient analysis
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U2 - 10.1109/TAC.2016.2572119
DO - 10.1109/TAC.2016.2572119
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85011708659
VL - 62
SP - 694
EP - 707
JO - IRE Transactions on Automatic Control
JF - IRE Transactions on Automatic Control
SN - 0018-9286
IS - 2
M1 - 7478055
ER -