Cellular bucket brigades on U-lines with discrete work stations

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: LIM, Yun Fong, WU, Yue
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• الموضوعات: bucket brigades; U-lines; cross-training; work-sharing; self-organization; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3512; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4511/viewcontent/yflim_POM2013_CellularBucketBridages_afv.pdf

It is challenging to maximize and maintain productivity of a U-line with discrete stations under the impact of variability. This is because maximizing productivity requires assigning workers to suitable tasks and maintaining productivity requires sufficient flexibility in task assignment to absorb t...