Production Line Efficiency

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Tables

3.1	Improvements in the best configuration IT and ABL compared to the balanced line
3.2	Percentage change in idle time over the “balanced” equal buffer distribution
3.3	Percentage savings in the best configurations ABL over the balanced equal buffer capacity line
3.4	Percentage savings in the best configurations ABL over the control
3.5	Percentage change/reduction in the best configurations IT over the control
3.6	IT data for one of the better performing unbalanced unreliable and reliable MT-CV-BC patterns, and the equivalent balanced line (line length N = 5)
3.7	ABL data for one of the better performing unbalanced unreliable and reliable MT-CV-BC patterns, and the equivalent balanced line (line length ...