Effects of production control strategy and duration variance on productivity and work in process: Simulation-based investigation

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1035-1043

  Hajifathalian, Kiarash ^a   Wambeke, Brad W ^b   Liu, Min ^a   Hsiang, Simon M ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Duration variance; Productivity; Simulation; Work in process

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION MANAGER; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; DURATION VARIANCE; PRODUCTION CONTROL STRATEGIES; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE-BASED; SEQUENTIAL TASK; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE; SIMULATION; WORK IN PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84873654790     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000517     Document Type: Article

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