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Fluctuations of the production output of transfer lines

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By using a fluid modeling approach, we study the fluctuations around the average throughput delivered by simple production system. A special attention is paid to the buffered production dipole for which an explicit estimation for an stationary variance of the throughput is calculated.

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  1. De´partement de Microtechnique, Institut de Microtechnique, E.P.F.L., CH-1015, Lausanne†

    Philippe Ciprut & Max-Olivier Hongler

  2. De´partement de Mathe´matiques, E.P.F.L., CH-1015, Lausanne

    Yves Salama

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Ciprut, P., Hongler, MO. & Salama, Y. Fluctuations of the production output of transfer lines. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing 11, 183–189 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008942917166

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