Wallace, Rodney B.; Whitt, Ward - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 7 (2005) 4, pp. 276-294
-class performance constraints. With appropriate flexibility, it suffices to use a suboptimal routing algorithm. Simulation experiments … addresses both of these routing and staffing problems by exploiting limited cross-training. Consistent with the literature on … flexible manufacturing, we find that minimal flexibility can provide great benefits: Simulation experiments show that when (1 …