SOME IMPROVEMENT CURVE THEORY
- 1 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research
- Vol. 8 (3) , 189-206
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207547008929840
Abstract
This paper presents a number of results relating to the theory and estimation of improvement curves and to some of the consequences of the improvement phenomenon, such as the importance of labour turnover, the effect on costs of breaking production runs and the need to modify the traditional optimum lot size formula.Keywords
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