| Article ID: | iaor20102865 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 589 |
| End Page Number: | 593 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Ward James, Chand Suresh, Teyarachakul Sunantha |
| Keywords: | batch size |
We analyze steady-state characteristics of batch production time for a constant-demand lot sizing problem with learning and forgetting in production time. We report a new type of convergence, the alternating convergence, in which the batch production time alternates between two different values.