A Production Line that Balances Itself

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DOI10.1287/opre.44.1.21zbMath0847.90063OpenAlexW2164129489MaRDI QIDQ4883199

John J. III Bartholdi, Donald D. Eisenstein

Publication date: 13 October 1996

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a040f8565bbf190ed678036e429948fdb06a7456




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