| Article ID: | iaor19911941 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Start Page Number: | 5 |
| End Page Number: | 6 |
| Publication Date: | May 1990 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Pence Norman E., Megeath Joe D., Morrell Joseph S. |
This article discusses the scheduling of a bottleneck in a several-stage process. It is applicable to a job-lot environment involving multiple products and minimizes the time/cost of putting the products through the bottleneck.