Practical buffer sizing techniques under Drum-Buffer-Rope : development of a model and fuzzy logic implementation : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology in Manufacturing and Industrial Technology at Massey University

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Practical buffer sizing techniques under Drum-Buffer-Rope : development of a model and fuzzy logic implementation : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology in Manufacturing and Industrial Technology at Massey University

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Massey University

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A production buffer is a queue of work waiting in front of a manufacturing work-station for processing. The buffer protects the work-station utilisation from variability in the flow of work from feeding work-stations. Effective buffer management is critical to the smooth flow of work and the maintenance of a predictable output rate. An effective buffer management policy must address three questions that characterise the buffer management problem (BMP): 1. What objective function to use? 2. Wh...

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Thesis

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Masters

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1996

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Foote, Jeffrey Lawrence

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/7269

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Production scheduling / Fuzzy sets / Uncertainty (Information theory)

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