Structural Flexibility: A New Perspective on the Design of Manufacturing and Service Operations

DOI10.1287/mnsc.1040.0333zbMath1232.90186MaRDI QIDQ3115442

Katharine T. Sims, Mark P. Van Oyen, Seyed M. R. Iravani

Publication date: 21 February 2012

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/53d6dea96c579a7d8d285dbcc2790303136e90ab

zbMATH Keywords

flexibility; cross-training; Max flow algorithm; serial and parallel production systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B30: Production models

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