In manufacturing systems with perishable products (eg, food, metal processing, etc.), the
quality of a part is highly dependent on its residence time within the system. However,
behavior and properties of these systems have not been studied systematically, and,
therefore, is carried out in this paper. Specifically, we assume that the probability that each
unfinished part is of good quality is a decreasing function of its residence time in the
preceding buffer. Then, in the framework of serial production lines with machines having …