The Universal Manufacturing Company has a single assem-bly line that feeds two drill presses in parallel. As partially completed products come off the line, they are lined up tobe worked on as drill presses become available. The unitsarrive at the workstation (containing both presses) at the rate of 90 per hour (Poisson distributed). Each press opera-tor can process an average of 60 units per hour (Poisson distributed). Compute L, Lq, W, and Wq.

The Universal Manufacturing Company has a single assem-bly line that feeds two drill presses in parallel. As partially completed products come off the line, they are lined up tobe worked on as drill presses become available. The unitsarrive at the workstation (containing both presses) at the rate of 90 per hour (Poisson distributed). Each press opera-tor can process an average of 60 units per hour (Poisson distributed). Compute L, Lq, W, and Wq.

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Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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