Evaluating the performance of look-ahead policies for upstream serial processor with downstream batch processor serving incompatible job families and finite buffer sizes

Batch processors can concurrently process more than one job. In wafer fabrication, the processing time of a batch is independent of batch size, and only jobs from the same job family can be batched together. We consider a two-stage subsystem of a wafer fabrication facility (wafer fab), comprised of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tajan, John Benedict C., Sivakumar, Appa Iyer., Gershwin, Stanley B.
Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101805
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16902