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Allocating a joint setup in a multi-cell system

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Consider a manufacturing system consisting of multiple cells; each cell processes a certain type of part family. For such systems, we study the problem of optimally allocating a joint setup among these cells. The production process of each cell is modelled by a birth process. Certain monotonicity properties of these birth process are established and used to show that the efficient discrete marginal allocation approach of Fox [1] can be applied here.

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  1. Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    David D. Yao

  2. School of Business Administration, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    J. George Shanthikumar

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Supported in part by NSF under grants DMC-8503896 and ECS-8658157, and by ONR under contract N00014-84-K-0465.

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Yao, D.D., George Shanthikumar, J. Allocating a joint setup in a multi-cell system. Ann Oper Res 15, 155–167 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186795

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