Along with a complete overview of production systems, this book investigates several production line problems and describes the best ways of analyzing production line performance. It has been written by experts in production and manufacturing research.

Analysis and Design of Discrete Part Production Lines provides a complete overview of production systems, investigating several production line problems, and describing the best approaches to the analysis of production line performance. Written by experts in the field of production and manufacturing research, this book also presents numerous techniques that can be used to describe and model various types of production lines.

Special Features:

• Includes access to a supplementary web-based software package, providing algorithms and examples, developed by distinguished experts of the field.

• Describes new results for evaluative techniques and design algorithms as well as several open problems in production line optimization.

• Presents in detail the theory and techniques that underlie production system management, design, and analysis, allowing the book to serve as an excellent introduction to newcomers in the field.

• Has potential for use in a graduate level course in industrial or manufacturing engineering, or in a business course with a manufacturing focus.

• Contains appendices providing an overview of several mathematical techniques employed to design and evaluate production line models.

Collected in one book are descriptions of and generally accepted best approaches to the analysis of the major problems facing the designers of production lines. This book will greatly assist designers and researchers to quickly ascertain what production line problems have been solved and what areas need further investigation There is additional software available online and is an integral part of the text. The information will allow consultants and designers to assess the performance of a specified production line. Scholars from around the world have kindly given us permission to use their tested software. It is to be hoped that consultants designers and researchers will offer their own software for inclusion in future editions of the book A useful overview of production systems is included to assist the younger analyst to understand the real problems facing the designers and managers of production lines and the context in which production lines are used in practice Sufficient background material in mathematics is given to enable the non specialist reader to understand the basics of the analytical approaches used and of the software developed for numerical solution Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Manufacturing Systems: Types and Modeling.- Evaluative Models of Discrete Part Production Lines.- The Design of Production Lines.- Work-Load and Server Allocation Problems.- The Buffer Allocation Problem.- Double and Triple Optimization.- Cost Considerations.