Journal article
EVALUATING THE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN IDLING AND SHUTTING DOWN PRODUCTION LINES IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Production and operations management, Vol.5(4), pp.371-390
Received July 1995; revision received May 1996; accepted October 1996.
12/1996
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1996.tb00406.x
Abstract
The costs of starting-up and shutting down production lines (and plants) in a process industry are often quite high. Therefore, when a plant's capacity significantly exceeds its forecast demand over an annual planning horizon, a manufacturer must either plan temporary production line shutdowns during the year, or plan to temporarily idle production lines without formally shutting line(s) down. The trade-offs between these two strategies can be complex. In this paper, we propose a methodology to evaluate the impact of both strategies on a plant's production costs by developing an analytical model based on the authors' experience with several process industries.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- EVALUATING THE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN IDLING AND SHUTTING DOWN PRODUCTION LINES IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES
- Creators
- Renato De Matta - University of IowaTan Miller - Warner Chilcott
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Production and operations management, Vol.5(4), pp.371-390
- Edition
- Received July 1995; revision received May 1996; accepted October 1996.
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1996.tb00406.x
- ISSN
- 1059-1478
- eISSN
- 1937-5956
- Number of pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1996
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380547002771
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