We consider a production planning problem for a general jobshop subject to breakdown and repair of machines and subject to lower and upper bound constraints on work-in-process. The machine capacities and demand processes are assumed to be finite state Markov chains. The problem is to choose the...

We consider a production planning problem in an N-machine flowshop subject to breakdown and repair of machines and to non-negativity constraints on work-in process. The machine capacities and demand processes are assumed to be finite-state Markov chains. The problem is to choose the rates of...

We develop a new, unified approach to treating continuous-time stochastic inventory problems with both the average and discounted cost criteria. The approach involves the development of an adjusted discounted cycle cost formula, which has an appealing intuitive interpretation. We show for the...

We consider an N-machine flowshop with unreliable machines and bounds on work-in-process. Machine capacities and demand processes are finite-state Markov chains. The problem is to choose the rates of production on the machines over time to minimize the expected discounted costs of production and...

This paper is concerned with the problem of production planning in a stochastic manufacturing system with serial machines that are subject to breakdown and repair. The machine capacities are modeled by a Markov chain. The objective is to choose the input rates at the various machines over time...

This paper is concerned with the problem of production planning in a stochastic manufacturing system with serial machines that are subject to breakdown and repair. The machine capacities are modeled as Markov chains. Since the number of parts in the internal buffers between any two the problem...

We consider a production planning problem for a general jobshop producing a number of products and subject to breakdown and repair of machines. The machine capacities are modeled as Markov chains. The objective is to choose the rates of production of the final products and intermediate parts on...