Allocating flexible servers in serial systems with switching costs

Consider a firm that operates a make-to-order serial production system and employs a cross-trained workforce. We model such a firm as a tandem queuing system in which flexible servers can be allocated across stations, and assume that a switching cost is charged when servers move between stations. We...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of operations research 2009-11, Vol.172 (1), p.231-242
Hauptverfasser:	Mayorga, Maria E., Taaffe, Kevin M., Arumugam, Ramesh
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Business and Management Combinatorics Costs Employment Heuristic Manufacturing execution systems Operations research Operations Research/Decision Theory Production management Servers Studies Theory of Computation
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