Comment on Yao and Buzacott’s “Modeling a class of flexible manufacturing systems with reversible routing”. (English) Zbl 0683.90037

van Dijk, Nico M.

Oper. Res. 37, No. 5, 845-846 (1989).

Summary: Recently, in an elegant paper, D. D. Yao and J. A. Buzacott [ibid. 35, 87-93 (1987; Zbl 0633.90025)] argued that Jackson’s celebrated product form applies to various FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) topologies with reversible routing. This note aims to point out the possibility of nonreversible extensions (Point 1) and the validity of their results under general nonexponential services (Point 2), as could have been concluded from the literature.

MSC:

90B30

Production models

Keywords:

Flexible Manufacturing System; reversible routing; nonexponential services

Citations:

Zbl 0633.90025