A Grammatical Approach to Routing Flexibility in Large Manufacturing Systems

This paper considers the nature of routing flexibility in manufacturing systems and proposes methods for its quantification. Firstly, a measure of flexibility appropriate to Markovian routing is presented. It is shown that various other measures of the flexibility of systems so modelled presented in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Upton, D, Barash, M
Format: Journal article
Published: 1988