IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ormnsc/v12y1966i10pb433-b449.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Operational System for Smoothing Batch-Type Production

Author

Listed:
  • Richard L. O'Malley

    (Western Electric Engineering Research Center, Princeton, New Jersey)

  • Salah E. Elmaghraby

    (Department of Industrial Administration, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)

  • John W. Jeske, Jr.

    (Business Research Division, American Telephone and Telegraph, New York, New York)

Abstract

This paper describes a production smoothing system which combines several known scheduling tools into an operational unit. The input to the system is forecasted customer demand; the outputs are the required production levels, size of labor force, planned overtime and expected inventories of classes and individual end products. Because of varying demand, economic manufacturing quantities are calculated by the method of dynamic programming following Wagner and Whitin. The manufacturing progress function is used to convert units into labor requirements. Finally, the operating schedule is derived by a linear programming formulation which balances payroll costs, the costs of labor fluctuations, and inventory charges. This system has been in operation for several months.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard L. O'Malley & Salah E. Elmaghraby & John W. Jeske, Jr., 1966. "An Operational System for Smoothing Batch-Type Production," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 12(10), pages 433-449, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:12:y:1966:i:10:p:b433-b449
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.12.10.B433
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.12.10.B433
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/mnsc.12.10.B433?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:12:y:1966:i:10:p:b433-b449. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.