Ahmadi, Reza H.; Dasu, Sriram; Tang, Christopher S. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 9, pp. 1341-1353
Consider a plant that has information about the arrival schedule of its "inputs" over a planning cycle. The plant has parallel production lines for processing multiple types of products. However, changeover cost and changeover time are incurred when a line changes from processing one type of...