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Throughput Analysis And Bottleneck Management Of Production Lines, Hatice Ucar
Throughput Analysis And Bottleneck Management Of Production Lines, Hatice Ucar
Wayne State University Dissertations
Companies are increasing their manufacturing excellence in order to stay competitive in the globalizing market. Plants are becoming more complex year by year due to increasing product classes, hardware complexity, etc... The design and operation of manufacturing systems is of greater importance today than it was in the past. Many studies have been carried out on the design and operation of manufacturing systems by academicians and practitioners over the years, however, there is still no agreement on how to best predict and improve the factory performance (Gershwin, 2000). The studies are based on either analytical approaches or simulation-based approaches. Success …