The costs of downtime incidents in serial multistage manufacturing systems

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Jianbo ^a   Chang, Qing ^b   Xiao, Guoxian ^c   Biller, Stephan ^c  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

budget allocation; continuous improvement; cost of downtime; multistage manufacturing systems; opportunity window

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FLOORS; MAINTENANCE; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

BUDGET ALLOCATION; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; COST OF DOWNTIMES; MULTI-STAGE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; OPPORTUNITY WINDOWS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84859920255     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005789     Document Type: Article

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