Managing stochastic bucket brigades on discrete work stations

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: WANG, Peng, PAN, Kai, YAN, Zhenzhen, LIM, Yun Fong
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• الموضوعات: Bucket brigade; Stochastic service time; Productivity; Variability; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6911; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7910/viewcontent/yflim_POM2021b.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Bucket brigades are notably used to coordinate workers in production systems. We study a J-station, I-worker bucket brigade system. The time duration for each worker to serve a job at a station is exponentially distributed with a rate that depends on the station's expected work content and the...