Download or read book Chaotic and Stochastic Behaviour in Automatic Production Lines written by Max-Olivier Hongler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the general configuration characteristics of automatic production lines, the author discusses the modelisation of important sectors of a factory. Typical topics such as parts feeders, part orienting devices, insertion mechanisms and buffered flows are analysed using random evolution models and non-linear dynamical systems theory.