Samaddar, Subhashish; Kaul, Tej - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1263-1265
Sarkar and Zangwill (S-Z, [Sarkar, D., W. I. Zangwill. 1991. Variance effects in cyclic production systems. Management Sci. 37(4, April) 444--453.]) have shown that in the presence of variance, setup and processing time reductions can have "detrimental" effects on the work-in-process (WIP)...