This paper treats the problem of setting the inventory level of closed-loop owlines operating under the constant-work-in-process (CONWIP) protocol. We solve ahuge but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of a closed-loopow line in discrete time to determine a production...

This paper presents a linear programming approach to analyze and optimizeow lines with limited buer capacities and stochastic processing times. The basic ideais to solve a huge but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of amulti-stage production process in discrete time, to...