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Many manufacturing and service enterprises or facilities fall into the general serial model depicted in Figure 1.

Namely, the overall process may be considered as a sequence of processes and buffers in which the outputs of one process become the inputs of the next process. Several examples are given in Table I.

Since the different processes may have differing productive efficiencies, various questions arise. For example:

Are the units of output and input being produced in a congruent manner?

How do the differences in productivity impact the buffers?

How does the overall productive efficiency of the whole sequence...