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Extending Little’s Law to single order throughput times
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Journal Article
Date Issued
2018-01-02
Sprache
English
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TORE-URI
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Volume
29
Issue
1
Start Page
1
End Page
8
Citation
Production Planning and Control 1 (29): 1-8 (2018-01-02)
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It has long been established that the mean throughput time is a result from the relationship between the work in process (WIP) and output rate. In reality, however, throughput times are frequently dispersed broadly around this mean. With the aid of a model originally developed for lateness, it is now possible to describe the throughput times of individual orders. Accordingly, the throughput time can be divided into two components: WIP-dependent throughput time and sequence-dependent throughput time.
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This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [grant number DFG LO858/10-1].