A diagnostic tree for improving production line performance

A diagnostic tree for improving production line performance

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Article ID: iaor20081689
Country: United States
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 77
End Page Number: 92
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Journal: Production and Operations Management
Authors: , ,
Abstract:

Improving performance of production systems is a critical but often unstructured activity. To help managers convert ad hoc or trial&error improvement efforts into efficient and systematic reviews, we develop a diagnostic tree which decomposes a performance improvement objective into successively more concrete sub-objectives and finally into potential improvement strategies. Based on principles from the Operations Management literature, this tree is structured to enable a non-specialist to better understand the links between corrective actions and performance. It also provides an important foundation for a principles-based knowledge management system that couples the decision tree with a search engine for locating relevant documents within an intranet.

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