Optimal ordering of operations in a manufacturing chain

Optimal ordering of operations in a manufacturing chain

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Article ID: iaor20021729
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 29
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 115
End Page Number: 121
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Journal: Operations Research Letters
Authors: ,
Keywords: manufacturing industries
Abstract:

We consider the effect of changes in the order of operations in a chain of manufacturing operations in which product differentiation increases at each operation of the chain. We investigate several measures for evaluating the performance of such a chain, and show that the optimal ordering of the operations depends critically on the performance measure. We give a unified treatment of earlier results that provides new intuition. We then extend these results to an explicit cost-minimization model.

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