Reliability evaluation of production systems with finite buffers subject to time-dependent and operation-dependent failures - Zhang, Ding; Luo, Yi; Liu, Qiang (Annals of operations research, 2024)
Keywords: Assembly lines; Assembly-line methods; Buffers; Business and Management; Combinatorics; Failure; Feasibility studies; Hypotheses; Manufacturing; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Original Research; Performance evaluation; Performance prediction; Pistons; Polymorphism; Production lines; Production management; Production processes; Reliability (Engineering); Reliability analysis; System reliability; Systems analysis; Theory of Computation; Time dependence; Work stations; China; Production system; Time-dependent failure; Universal generating function; Finite buffers; Multi-state reliability; Operation-dependent failure