Sarkar, Debashish; Zangwill, Willard I. - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 4, pp. 444-453
Utilizing a cyclic queue system, this paper investigates the effect of variance on a multi-item production facility. The variance of setup time, service rate and arrival rate is shown to have a powerful and sometimes paradoxical influence. Reduction in setup time, for example, is usually...