Method of efficient analysis of the recursive conveyor process models.

Consideration was given to a model of recursive conveyor process which is an extension of the classical conveyor. A method for efficient calculation of the process time characteristics in a linear time was described. On the basis of the calculated characteristics, the scheduling of recursive conveyor processes comes to calculation of analytical expressions. The proposed model can be used in the APS-systems and MES-systems of control of production, as well as for scheduling in some traditional fields of application of the scheduling theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]