Article ID: | iaor19992199 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page Number: | 1206 |
End Page Number: | 1211 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Lau Hon-Shiang, Zhou Y.-W. |
Keywords: | production, scheduling |
In this paper, we develop an optimal manufactured lot-sizing model under the consideration of learning and shortages. Here the learning phenomenon conforms to the De Jong bounded learning curve. A one-dimensional search method is presented for determining the unique optimal production schedule, which minimises the sum of labour and material costs, fixed set-up costs, the holding cost and the shortage cost per unit time. A numerical example is used to illustrate the solution procedure; sensitivity analyses are also shown.