Job release control using a cyclic schedule

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 274-287

  Bowman, R Alan ^a,b,c  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Critical path; Cyclic scheduling; Inventory management; Job release control

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244349649     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2002.tb00496.x     Document Type: Article

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