Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 19, Pages 5831-5841Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903280572
Keywords
JIT; lean manufacturing; quality management; six sigma; theory of constraints; TOC
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It is intuitively appealing to measure downtime in terms of total time lost (i.e. frequency times duration). However, the same total downtime can be produced by an infinite number of frequency/duration combinations. This study reports the findings of a computer simulation study on the impact of varying combinations of downtime frequency/duration pairs on performance of serial production systems. The research reported here clearly shows that different downtime frequency/duration combinations affect serial production lines differently even when the total downtime remains equal. Analysis suggests that long duration, infrequently occurring variation has a much more negative impact on system performance than short duration, frequently occurring variation.
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