Modeling of In-process Inventory in Continuous Production Based on Reliability

Based on the repairable system model in the theory of reliability,using reliability block diagram and Markov state transition process,the in-process inventory which should ensure continuous production was analyzed from the point of view of reliability,and a serial production line buffer capacity reliability model was established.The formula of the number of in-process inventory that was used to ensure continuous production was deduced with the help of the reliability model.It is concluded that the reliability model is valid through the calculation of an example.