The impact of non-bottleneck variation in a manufacturing cell

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-85

  Wayne Patterson, J ^a   Fredendall, Lawrence D ^a   Craighead, Christopher W ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck shiftiness; Protective capacity; Simulation; Variation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOTTLENECK RESOURCES; MEAN FLOW TIMES (MFT); NON-BOTTLENECK VARIATIONS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036271379     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280110063726     Document Type: Article

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