结合多级排队网络和库存模型用于多产品生产物流链的性能分析--物流专业毕业论文外文翻译.docVIP

Combining multi-class queueing networks and inventory models for performance analysis of multi-product manufacturing logistics chains Yifan Wu Ming Dong Received: 15 October 2006 /Accepted: 6 March 2007 /Published online: 31 March 2007 # Springer-Verlag London Limited 2007 Abstract Manufacturing logistics chains consist of complex interconnections among several suppliers, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retailers and logistics providers. Performance modeling and analysis become increasingly more important and difficult in the management of such complex manufacturing logistics networks. Many research studies have developed different methods to solve such problems. However, most of the research focuses on logistics systems with either a single stage or single type of product. In the real world, industries always involve multiple stages and produce multiple types of products at one stage. This paper is geared toward developing a new methodology by combining multi-class queueing networks and inventory models for the performance analysis of multi-product manufacturing logistic chains. A network of multi-class inventory queue models is presented for the performance analysis of a serial multi-stage manufacturing logistics chain in which multiple types of products are produced at each stage. A job queue decomposition strategy is employed to analyze the major performance measures and an approach for aggregating input streams and separating output streams is proposed to link all the sites or nodes in the logistics chain together. Numerical results show that the proposed method is effective for the application examples. Keywords Multi-class queueing networks .Inventory models .Multi-stage manufacturing logistic chains . Aggregation . Separation 1 Introduction A manufacturing logistic chain can be viewed as a network of suppliers, manufacturing sites, distribution centers, and customer locations, through which components and products flow. A node in a network can be a ph