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Original Articles

The effect of incompletion cost on line balancing with multiple manning of work stations

Pages 235-245 | Received 25 Apr 1983, Published online: 25 Jun 2007
 

Abstract

This paper presents an heuristic procedure for designing production lines with stochastic task times and multiple manning of work stations. The procedure is aimed at minimizing the total cost of the line; composed of facility layout costs, in-process inventory costs, labour cost and task incompletion cost.

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