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.