Abstract
A recent interesting paper (Cooper, Niu, and Srinivasan
[2]) shows how for some cyclic production systems
reducing setup times can surprisingly increase work in
process. There the authors show how in these situations
the introduction of forced idle time can be used to optimize
system performance. Here we show that introducing forced
idle time at different points during the production cycle
can further improve performance in these situations and
also in situations where the suggestions from [2]
yield no improvement.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Management Science and Operations Research,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Statistics and Probability
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