McNamara, Tom; Shaaban, Sabry; Hudson, Sarah - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 111 (2011) 9, pp. 1356-1380
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of unpaced reliable production lines that are unbalanced in terms of their mean operation times, coefficients of variation and buffer capacities. Design/methodology/approach – Simulations were carried out for five‐ and...