Recent interest in product quality suggests that effort devoted to improving the quality of manufactured products may reduce unit costs. This conjecture---that improving quality can lower costs---challenges the traditional assumption that unit costs increase with increased quality assurance...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the type of company which can benefit from incorporating learning curve analysis into its medium-term capacity planning procedures and the effect of information aggregation on learning curve capacity projections. The research into these two issues uses a...

Planning the allocation of scarce resources to competing activities over multiple time periods is one of the most important problems facing decision makers in modern organizations. Much of the previous research in this area has concentrated on the use of linear programming procedures and has...

This paper deals with a model of the firm engaged in production to order. Models of this situation frequently conclude that the size of the order and production rate each influence the costs of production. Despite this fact, empirical work on production costs focus almost exclusively on either...