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| Author: | Yang, K.-K. Webster, S. Ruben, R. A. |
| Title: | An Evaluation of Flexible Workday Policies in Job Shops |
| Journal: | Decision Sciences Journal
2002 : SPRING, VOL. 33:2, p. 223-250 |
| Index terms: | SCHEDULING CONTROL SIMULATION WORKERS EVALUATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Job shops have long faced pressures for improvement in a challenging and volatile environment. Today's trends of global competition and shortening of product life cycles suggest that both the challenges and the intensity of market volatility will only increase. Consequently, the study of tactics for maximizing the flexibility and responsiveness of a job shop is important. Indeed, there is a significant body of literature that has produced guidelines on when and how to deploy tactics such as alternate routings for jobs and transfers of cross-trained workers between machines. In this paper the authors consider a different tactic by adjusting the length of workdays. Hours in excess of a 40-hour week are exchanged for compensatory time off at time and a half. |
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