Cross-training workers in dual resource constrained systems with heterogeneous processing times

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6333-6356

  Bokhorst, J A C ^a   Gaalman, G J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross training; Dual Resource Constrained systems; Labour assignment; Pooling

Indexed keywords

CROSS-TRAINED WORKERS; CROSS-TRAINING; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DUAL RESOURCE CONSTRAINED; DUAL RESOURCE CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; LABOUR ASSIGNMENT; MACHINE AVAILABILITY; MEAN FLOW; MEAN FLOW TIME; MULTIPLE SERVERS; POOLING; PROCESSING TIME; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; SIMULATION ANALYSIS;

QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70449562846     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802350724     Document Type: Article

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