Sequencing jobs in an engineer-to-order engineering environment

Engineer–to-order (ETO) firms produce complex – one of a kind – products and desire shorter lead time as a key component to cost competitiveness. In ETO firms, the engineering process is the largest controllable consumer of lead time. Given that lead time is a function of completion rate and schedul...

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Main Authors: Douglas H. Grabenstetter, John M. Usher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-01-01
Series:Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2015.1035461