Duenyas, Izak; Hopp, Wallace J.; Spearman, Mark L. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 8, pp. 975-988
We model a CONWIP (CONstant Work-in-Process) production line with deterministic processing times and exponential failure and repair times as a closed queueing network. We derive an approximation for the mean and variance of the output during a specified interval and give computable conditions...