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Original Articles

Industrial Engineering Applications of ABC Curves

Pages 210-218 | Received 01 Dec 1974, Published online: 09 Jul 2007
 

Abstract

A fundamental technique in industrial engineering is to rank the items of a population in descending order of some activity and from such a distribution by value to draw an ABC curve. In many cases, ABC curves can be approximated by a log-normal frequency distribution. The mean and standard deviation of this distribution may be employed for direct determination of aggregate values of multi-item populations.

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