Performance of bucket brigades when work is stochastic

Operations Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 710-719

  Bartholdi III, J J ^a   Eisenstein, D D ^a   Foley, R D ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; THROUGHPUT; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BUCKET BRIGADES; WORK-CONTENT MODEL;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0035460936     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.49.5.710.10609     Document Type: Article

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