Throughput in serial lines with state-dependent behavior

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1095-1105

  Powell, Stephen G ^a   Schultz, Kenneth L ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer capacity; Just in time; Laboratory experiments; Serial production lines; State dependent behavior

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BUFFER CAPACITY; JUST-IN-TIME; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINES; STATE-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 4344604402     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0233     Document Type: Article

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