Real time production improvement through bottleneck control

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6145-6158

  Li, Lin ^a   Chang, Qing ^b   Ni, Jun ^a   Biller, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced line status; Bottleneck inertia phenomena; Initial buffer adjustment; Real time bottleneck control; Short term

Indexed keywords

BALANCED-LINE STATUS; BOTTLENECK INERTIA PHENOMENA; INITIAL BUFFER ADJUSTMENT; REAL TIME BOTTLENECK CONTROL; SHORT-TERM;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; RESEARCH;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 70449578995     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802244240     Document Type: Article

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