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An optimal strategy for selection of the required local storages of the workstations and transporter stations of a finite capacity flexible assembly line system is presented while controlling the bottleneck problem. For this purpose, a mixed non-Markovian queueing network with infinite capacity nodes is presented to model its performance, a stochastic optimization model is provided and a heuristic algorithm is developed for solving it. Finally, an example is presented and the approximation results are compared with those from a simulation study.
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Pourbabai, B. Minimum Required Local Storages of an Automated Assembly System. J Oper Res Soc 43, 95–109 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1992.16
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1992.16