Article ID: | iaor1990933 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 203 |
End Page Number: | 216 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
Journal: | Journal of Operations Management |
Authors: | Flynn Barbara B. |
Keywords: | production |
This study investigated a procedure designed to improve performance in group technology shops. The repetitive lots (RL) scheduling procedure capitalizes on the sequence dependency of set-up times in shops. This procedure scans a queue of waiting jobs, seeking to find a job identical to the job that was just processed on a machine, which should eliminate the need for a machine setup. The truncated repetitive lots (TRL) procedure prevents lots from becoming excessively large by allowing no more than