Keyword: measurement

Found 937 papers in total
The application of cognitive simulation techniques to work measurement and methods analysis of production control tasks
1991,
The implementation of flexible control in production and manufacturing operations has...
A performance measurement method which remedies the ‘productivity paradox’
1990,
Many manufacturing companies report the paradox that productivity and profits do not...
User delay costs and internal pricing for a service facility
1990,
This paper studies optimal pricing and capacity decisions for a service facility in an...
The cooperative venture formation process: A latent variable structural modeling approach
1990,
This article addresses management process issues for forming cooperative ventures with...
Measuring logistics performance
1989,
A planned strategy of measurement is a prerequisite of successful planning,...
Designing performance measurement systems for just-in-time operations
1990,
Results of a study conducted to understand how performance is evaluated in...
Business productivity measurement using standard cost accounting information
1990,
The measurement of productivity has been a problem area for many years because of the...
Multiple performance measures in the selection of a sequencing rule
1990,
While it is well known that managers make scheduling decisions based on multiple...
Communication and income smoothing through accounting method choice
1990,
This paper shows how accounting income smoothing could arise as rational equilibrium...
A simple formula for estimating throughput of serial production lines with variable processing times and limited buffer capacity
1990,
This paper develops an analytical formula for throughput (jobs per hour) of a serial...
Comparing university departments
1990,
This paper presents a quantitative model for comparing university departments...
Strategic Orientation of Business Enterprises: The construct, dimensionality, and measurement
1989,
This paper reports the results of a research study aimed at conceptualizing and...
The impact of just-in-time on production system performance, an analytical framework
1989,
This paper is part of a research programme being undertaken in Italy on the...
A despatching rule to allow trade-offs between inventory and customer satisfaction
1989,
In job-shop scheduling research, the shortest processing time despatching rule (SPT)...
A proposed entropy measure for assessing combat degradation
1989,
This paper describes a method for assessing the combat degradation of an army, based...
Order review/release: Research issues and perspectives
1989,
This paper examines the order review/release (ORR) function and its impact on the...
Examples of measurement of flexibility and adaptivity in manufacturing systems
1989,
This paper presents examples of recently developed measures of flexibility and...
Efficient corporate diversification: Methods and implications
1989,
This study develops and tests a measure of efficient corporate diversification (ECD)...
A systems model of underwater inspection operations
1989,
The paper reports on the development of a systems model of the sub-sea inspection of...
Upper bounds of a measure of dependence and the relaxation time for finite state Markov chains
1989,
This paper, considers a measure of dependence between X t and X 0 where X t is an...
On the relaxation time for single server queues
1989,
This paper gives a natural definition of the relaxation time for general single server...
Bounds for throughput in production/inventory systems in series with deterministic processing times
1989,
A production/inventory system consisting of work stations in series and a finished...
Measuring need to spend on education
1989,
As part of a legislative package designed to reform the finance of local government in...
Assessment of manufacturing system reliability: A case study
1989,
Reduction of unproductive work-in-process (WIP) inventory has been a subject of global...
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