Bucket brigades with worker learning
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A strategy for increasing labor productivity in the bucker brigade system is discussed. Bucket brigade system is a method of transporting goods by means of buckets that are passed from person to person.
Publication Name: European Journal of Operational Research
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0377-2217
Year: 2007
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Bucket brigades revisited: Are they always effective?
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Effectiveness of bucket brigade system is analyzed along with variables like number of workers and different speeds.
Publication Name: European Journal of Operational Research
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0377-2217
Year: 2006
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Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly networks
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The methods to adapt the "bucket brigade" protocol of work-sharing in a network of subassembly lines are discussed.
Publication Name: European Journal of Operational Research
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0377-2217
Year: 2006
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