Optimal control of a simple assembly system

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1993

Abstract

A simple assembly system consists of two subassembly cells. One unit produced from each cell is required to assemble a product. The production processes at the cells are modeled as point processes with controllable stochastic intensities. We identify a threshold control and establish its optimally using an approach that incorporates dynamic programming arguments into stochastic intensity control. With combined power of both, the optimality of the threshold control is established in a point process setting that is much more general than the Markovian setting usually assumed in dynamic programming. © 1993.

Identifier

0027688854 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Operations Research Letters

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-6377(93)90070-W

ISSN

01676377

First Page

199

Last Page

205

Issue

4

Volume

14

Grant

ECS-89-96230

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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