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Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
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Model For Prioritization Of High Variation Elements In Discrete Production Systems, Bharadwaj Venkatesan
Model For Prioritization Of High Variation Elements In Discrete Production Systems, Bharadwaj Venkatesan
Doctoral Dissertations
The complexity of the modern manufacturing enterprise has led companies to look for techniques and methodologies for improving production performance. Lean manufacturing techniques have been applied in the US with varying degrees of success, and Theory of Constraints (TOC) has been used to emphasize the flow of production and identify performance improvement projects. One aspect of manufacturing for which there has been limited academic or industrial research till date is the impact of variation on production performance and the identification of improvement projects based on variation. This thesis develops a methodology to incorporate random and simultaneous occurrence of variability in …