Understanding the performance of the long chain and sparse designs in process flexibility

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1125-1141

  Simchi Levi, David ^a   Wei, Yehua ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity pooling; Facility planning: design; Flexible manufacturing; Network flow; Random walk; Supermodular function

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY POOLING; FACILITY PLANNING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING; NETWORK FLOWS; RANDOM WALK; SUPERMODULAR FUNCTIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84869745118     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1081     Document Type: Article

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