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.