Scheduling Workforce and Workflow in a High Volume Factory

DOI10.1287/MNSC.43.2.158zbMATH Open0889.90075OpenAlexW2095210174MaRDI QIDQ4367202FDOQ4367202

Authors: Richard C. Larson, Oded Berman, Edieal J. Pinker 

Publication date: 22 June 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.2.158

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zbMATH Keywords

queueing networksdiscrete time linear time-invariant systemsflow of work-in-progressMarkovian routingsobject-oriented linear programming

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear programming (90C05) Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Production models (90B30)

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