Production planning for a ramp-up process with learning in production and growth in demand

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 50, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 5707-5718

  Glock, Christoph H ^a   Jaber, Mohamad Y ^b   Zolfaghari, Saeed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

growth in demand; labour requirement; learning in production; production planning; production ramp up; worker assignment

Indexed keywords

DEMAND FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL DATA; LABOUR REQUIREMENT; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PRODUCTION AND DEMAND RATE; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION PLANNING; PRODUCTION RATES; TOTAL COSTS; WORKER ASSIGNMENT;

FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 84867363412     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.616549     Document Type: Article

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