Production and capacity expansion decisions are difficult to analyze when there is learning. Later production is less costly, and maybe more profitable, but the company must endure high initial production costs. Mixed integer programming models are presented for optimizing coordinated production...

An important problem confronting decision makers in modern organizations is the determination of an optimal product-mix (or service-mix) in situations where learning effects are present. Learning has been observed to exist in a variety of production and service situations in which the amount of...