Lot-Sizing and Lead-time Performance in a Manufacturing Cell

Uday S. Karmarkar, Sham Kekre, Sunder Kekre and Susan Freeman
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Uday S. Karmarkar: The Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627
Sham Kekre: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 14650
Sunder Kekre: The Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
Susan Freeman: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 14650

Interfaces, 1985, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-9

Abstract: Many complex multi-item manufacturing shops have high levels of work-in-process because of queueing delays at machines and consequently long manufacturing lead times. These delays are directly related to lot sizes. Two alternative approaches applied to modeling a manufacturing cell---simulation and a novel analytical lot-sizing model (Q-LOTS)---provide very similar results and validate the analytical model.

Keywords: production/scheduling:; lot; sizing; (closed; shop) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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