| Article ID: | iaor1994583 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 27 |
| End Page Number: | 36 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1993 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Ding Fong-Yuen, Cheng Liping |
| Keywords: | production: JIT |
The commonly accepted objective for sequencing a mixed-model assembly line in a just-in-time production system is to maintain a near-constant production rate for every model in the line. This article provides an extremely simple algorithm to solve this problem. The repeating property of the new algorithm is also given.