Talbot, F. Brian; Patterson, James H.; Gehrlein, William V. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 4, pp. 430-454
In this paper, we report on a computational experiment designed to assess the efficacy of 26 heuristic decision rules which group work tasks into work stations along an assembly line such that the number of work stations required is minimized. The heuristic decision rules investigated vary from...