Nibler, Roger - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 14 (1997) 2, pp. 176-185
Contends that parallel production sub‐systems may be cost effective and, in some cases, they are the only technically … sub‐systems are likely to be most cost effective when placed in upstream operations, where the leverage effect on output … quality is considerably higher. Although typical research in parallel systems assumes a known distribution to estimate the …