摘要
Thispaperproposesagraphical-basedmethodologytoevaluatetheperformanceofamanufacturingsystemintermsofnetworkmodel.Wefocusonamanufacturingsystemwhichconsistsofmultipledistinctproductionlines.Atransformationtechniqueisdevelopedtobuildthemanufacturingsystemasamanufacturingnetwork.Insuchamanufacturingnetwork,thecapacityofeachmachineismultistateduetofailure,partialfailure,ormaintenance.Thus,thismanufacturingnetworkisalsoregardedasamultistatenetwork.Weevaluatetheprobabilitythatthemanufacturingnetworkcanmeetagivendemand,wheretheprobabilityisreferredtoasthesystemreliability.Asimplealgorithmintegratingdecompositiontechniqueisproposedtogeneratetheminimalcapacityvectorsthatmachinesshouldprovidetoeventuallysatisfydemand.Thesystemreliabilityisderivedintermsofsuchcapacityvectorsafterwards.ApracticalapplicationinthecontextofICcardmanufacturingsystemisutilizedtodemonstratetheperformanceevaluationprocedure.
出版日期
2013年01月11日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
