Reliability-oriented multi-resource allocation for seru production system with stochastic capacity Online publication date: Thu, 22-Oct-2020
by Xinzi Han; Zhe Zhang; Yong Yin
International Journal of Manufacturing Research (IJMR), Vol. 15, No. 4, 2020
Abstract: Seru production system, which can meet the demands characterised by varied product assortment and fluctuant volumes in Japanese production practice, consists of several serus where the capacity of each seru is not certain but stochastic. Therefore, the capacity of each seru has multiple operational states. In this situation, the system reliability is an important issue to evaluate the performance of this new type production mode. The reliability in this paper is defined as the probability that a seru production system with stochastic capacity can satisfy the given demands within a fixed period, and a resource allocation problem in a stochastic-flow network, i.e., how to allocate various resources to each seru from a reliable angle, is formulated to maximise the system reliability. An efficient solution method is designed according to the characteristic of network, and two cases are given to illustrate the proposed model and solution method. [Submitted 24 January 2019; Accepted 7 May 2019]
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