Impact of absenteeism on assembly line quality and throughput

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 333-343

  Blumenfeld, Dennis E ^a   Inman, Robert R ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Andon; Automotive; Queueing history; Work team

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649948108     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01019.x     Document Type: Article

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