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MORE ON USING FORCED IDLE TIME TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN POLLING MODELS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 1999
Abstract
A recent interesting paper (Cooper, Niu, and Srinivasan [2]) shows how for some cyclic production systems reducing setup times can surprisingly increase work in process. There the authors show how in these situations the introduction of forced idle time can be used to optimize system performance. Here we show that introducing forced idle time at different points during the production cycle can further improve performance in these situations and also in situations where the suggestions from [2] yield no improvement.
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- Research Article
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 489 - 496
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- © 1999 Cambridge University Press
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