Improving operations planning with learning curves: Overcoming the pitfalls of 'messy' shop floor data

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-107

  Smunt, Timothy L ^a   Watts, Charles A ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch manufacturing; Capacity management; Learning curves; Operations planning; Productivity

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; PLANNING; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

OPERATIONS PLANNING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037213063     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-6963(02)00088-8     Document Type: Article

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