Buffers are inventory held in between machines to avoid stockout of parts. When a
company has large buffer quantities between machines the inventory holding cost increases.
Reducing the amount in a buffer increases the chance of stockout and hence will have a direct
impact on the throughput of the line. Hence there is a need to maximize the throughput of the
production line for a minimum quantity of buffers carried between machines.
In large volume manufacturing, homogeneous unreliable serial parallel production lines
are typical. For this line, a method is developed to identify the buffer allocation that maximizes
the throughput of the line with a constraint on the maximum buffer size that can be held in the
line. The developed method is implemented in case studies to identify buffer allocation that
maximizes throughput. / Thesis (M.S.)--Wichita State University, College of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:WICHITA/oai:soar.wichita.edu:10057/3755 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Venkataraju, Ram Prasaad |
| Contributors | Whitman, Lawrence E. |
| Publisher | Wichita State University |
| Source Sets | Wichita State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xvi, 167 leaves, ill. |
| Rights | Copyright Ram Prasaad Venkataraju, 2010. All rights reserved |
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