Scheduling Workforce and Workflow in a High Volume Factory

DOI10.1287/MNSC.43.2.158MaRDI QIDQ4367202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

discrete time linear time-invariant systemsflow of work-in-progressMarkovian routingsobject-oriented linear programmingqueueing networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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