Performance analysis of a PAC system with card capacity of c

Production Authorization Card (PAC) systems are often used in analyzing manufacturing systems. Most of the studies about PAC system consider single capacity cards. In this research, we analyze a PAC system with mult capacity cards. We provide both an exact model and an approximation model. The exact model is developed using Markov chain while the approximation model is developed by transformation of the original system into a multi-server queuing system. The approximation model is validated using simulation and comparison with existing approximation model in the literature.