Process flexibility revisited : the graph expander and its applications

• Main Authors: Chou, Mabel C., Chua, Geoffrey A., Teo, Chung-Piaw, Zheng, Huan
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Operations management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94532; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25598
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We examine how to design a flexible process structure for a production system to match supply with demand more effectively. We argue that good flexible process structures are essentially highly connected graphs, and we use the concept of graph expansion (a measure of graph connectivity) to achieve v...