Effect of learning and forgetting on batch sizes

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-128

  Teyarachakul, Sunantha ^a   Chand, Suresh ^b   Ward, James ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

learning and forgetting; production scheduling; small batches

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951980335     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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