MIT 2.852 Manufacturing Systems Analysis Lecture 17 Long Lines Stanley B. Gershwin Spring, 2004 Copyright ©2004 Stanley B. Gershwin, All rights reserved.¢ Difficulty: x* No simple formula for calculating production rate or inventory levels. x State space is too large for exact numerical solution. x If all buffer sizes are N and the length of the line is k, the number of states is S = 2*(N + 1)*-1. «if N = 10 and k = 20, S = 6.41 x 10”. * Decomposition seems to work successfully. Copyright ©2004 Stanley 8. Gershwin, All rights reserved 2Copyright ©2004 Stanlay 8. Gershwin, Allrights reserved.