General motors increases its production throughput

Interfaces

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-25

  Alden, Jeffrey M ^a   Burns, Lawrence D ^a   Costy, Theodore ^a   Hutton, Richard D ^a   Jackson, Craig A ^a   Kim, David S ^b   Kohls, Kevin A ^c   Owen, Jonathan H ^a   Turnquist, Mark A ^d   Vander Veen, David J ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOAR TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Manufacturing; Performance productivity; Production scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247645931     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1050.0181     Document Type: Article

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