Handbook of stochastic models and analysis of manufacturing system operations/ J. MacGregor Smith, Baris Tan eds.

Includes index and reference

The design of manufacturing systems to cope with variability -- Modeling automated warehouses using semi-open queueing networks -- Exact analysis of discrete part production lines: the markovian queueing network and the stochastic automata networks formalisms -- Models of leveling for lean manufacturing systems -- Value ofadvance demand information in production and inventory systems with shared resources -- Production systems engineering: review and recent developments -- Production release control: paced, WIP-based or demand-driven? revisiting the push/pull and make-to-order/make-to-stock distinctions -- Queueing network models of material handling and transportation systems -- Modeling and analysis of output variability in discrete material flow production systems -- Stochastic lot sizing problems -- From operational to financial evaluation of manufacturing systems