Practical Operations Management
Practical Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781939297136
Author: Simpson
Publisher: HERCHER PUBLISHING,INCORPORATED
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Interpretation: The average length of this service.

Concept introduction: The M/M/1 queue assumes poison arrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in an FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further, if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise, it tends to be too variable of a distribution.

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