Variability and the fundamental properties of production lines

• Main Authors: Wu, Kan, Zhou, Yaoming, Zhao, Ning
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: variability; production lines
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83989; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41561
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The concept of variability has been commonly used in practice and it is an important performance index of manufacturing systems. In this study, the definition of system variability is given through the insight of Kingman’s approximation. The explicit expression for the variability of a production li...