摘要：AbstractManufacturing systems with waiting time constraints are widely observed in battery, automotive, semiconductor, food and many other industries. Under such requirements, the residence time of a part in a buffer is constrained by a given time limit and the part exceeding the limit is subject to quality inspection and could be scrapped with a certain probability. To evaluate the performance of such systems, in this paper, we study Bernoulli serial lines with waiting time limits. For two-machine lines, analytical formulas are derived to predict the system performance in the steady state. In case of longer lines, direct analysis is intractable, thus an iterative aggregation procedure is presented. Based on extensive numerical experiments, the convergent results of the procedure can be obtained and high precision in performance estimation is achieved.
