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Performance Evaluation of a Two-Product CONWIP System with Poisson Demand Processes

Poisson 수요과정을 갖는 두 품목 콘윕시스템의 성능평가

  • Park, Chan-Woo (Testing and Certification Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Su-Min (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Bang, Woo-Hyung (R&D Center, LIG Nex1 Co., Ltd.) ;
  • Lee, Hyo-Seong (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
  • 박찬우 (한국철도기술연구원 시험인증안전센터) ;
  • 김수민 (경희대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 방우형 (LIG 넥스원(주) 연구개발본부) ;
  • 이효성 (경희대학교 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2012.12.06
  • Accepted : 2013.01.28
  • Published : 2013.06.15

Abstract

In this study we consider a flow line CONWIP system in which two types of product are produced. The processing times of each product type at each station follow an independent exponential distribution and the demands for the finished products of each type arrive according to a Poisson process. The demands that are not satisfied instantaneously are either backordered or lost according to the number of unsatisfied demands that exist at their arrival instants. For this system we develop an approximation method to obtain the performance measures such as steady state probabilities of the number of parts of each product type at each station, mean waiting times of backordered demands and the proportion of backordered demands. For the analysis of the proposed CONWIP system, we model the CONWIP system as a two class closed queueing network with a synchronization station and analyze the closed queueing network using a product-form approximation method for multiple classes developed by Baynat and Dallery. In the approximation method, each subsystem is analyzed using a matrix geometric method. Comparisons with simulation show that the approximation method provides fairly good results for all performance measures.

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