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A new approach for buffer allocation in unreliable production lines

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  • Nahas, Nabil
  • Ait-Kadi, Daoud
  • Nourelfath, Mustapha

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  • Nahas, Nabil & Ait-Kadi, Daoud & Nourelfath, Mustapha, 2006. "A new approach for buffer allocation in unreliable production lines," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(2), pages 873-881, October.
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    1. Federico Nuñez-Piña & Joselito Medina-Marin & Juan Carlos Seck-Tuoh-Mora & Norberto Hernandez-Romero & Eva Selene Hernandez-Gress, 2018. "Modeling of Throughput in Production Lines Using Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Networks," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2018, pages 1-10, January.
    2. Wei, Shuaichong & Nourelfath, Mustapha & Nahas, Nabil, 2023. "Analysis of a production line subject to degradation and preventive maintenance," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 230(C).
    3. Nahas, Nabil & Khatab, Abdelhakim & Ait-Kadi, Daoud & Nourelfath, Mustapha, 2008. "Extended great deluge algorithm for the imperfect preventive maintenance optimization of multi-state systems," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 93(11), pages 1658-1672.
    4. James T. Lin & Chun-Chih Chiu, 2018. "A hybrid particle swarm optimization with local search for stochastic resource allocation problem," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 481-495, March.
    5. Colledani, Marcello & Tolio, Tullio, 2009. "Performance evaluation of production systems monitored by statistical process control and off-line inspections," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(2), pages 348-367, August.
    6. Belmansour, Ahmed-Tidjani & Nourelfath, Mustapha, 2010. "An aggregation method for performance evaluation of a tandem homogenous production line with machines having multiple failure modes," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 95(11), pages 1193-1201.
    7. Mehmet Ulaş Koyuncuoğlu & Leyla Demir, 2021. "A comparison of combat genetic and big bang–big crunch algorithms for solving the buffer allocation problem," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 32(6), pages 1529-1546, August.
    8. Nabil Nahas, 2017. "Buffer allocation and preventive maintenance optimization in unreliable production lines," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 85-93, January.
    9. Cruz, F.R.B. & Van Woensel, T. & Smith, J. MacGregor, 2010. "Buffer and throughput trade-offs in M/G/1/K queueing networks: A bi-criteria approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(2), pages 224-234, June.
    10. Sabry Shaaban & Tom Mcnamara & Sarah Hudson, 2015. "The impact of failure, repair and joint imbalance of processing time means & buffer sizes on the performance of unpaced production lines," Post-Print hal-01205567, HAL.

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