Deng, Tianhu; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15 (2013) 1, pp. 24-32
Several design guidelines and flexibility indices have been developed in the literature to inform the design of … flexible production networks. In this paper, we propose additional flexibility design guidelines for unbalanced networks, where … the numbers of plants and products are not equal, by refining the well-known Chaining Guidelines. We study symmetric …