• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.114-120
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• 2005

This paper studies procedures for bottleneck detection in closed queueing networks(CQN's) with multiple job classes. Bottlenecks refer to servers operating at $100\%$ utilization. For CQN's, this can occur as the population sizes approach infinity. Bottleneck detection reduces to a non-linear complementary problem which in important special cases may be interpreted as a Kuhn-Tucker set. Efficient computational procedures are provided.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.95-102
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• 2001

The design of automobile body assembly line is one of essential parts for improving the process performance. The major objective of this research is to develop a performance evaluation model for automobile assembly line using a closed queueing network(CQN) and simulation method. In this study we used a two-step approach to compute the performance of the assembly line : first, we used CQN model considering assembly line equipments and the line operating time under the assumption of no failure, and second we used a well-known simulator FACTOR/AIM. Finally we implemented this model on a K automobile company and we have shown the sample results of automobile body assembly line.