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Bucket Brigades Revisited: Are They Always Effective?, European Journal of
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Abstract: Previous work on the dynamics of bucket brigades has focused on
systems in which workers can be ordered with respect to their speeds and where
this ordering does not change throughout the line. While this assumption is
valid in most environments, it may not be satisfied in some. We consider such
environments and explore the conditions under which bucket brigades continue to
be effective (compared to a traditional static allocation) with respect to
self-balancing behavior and throughput performance. A two worker bucket brigade
is studied where one worker is faster than the other over some part of the
production line and slower over another part of the line. We analyze the
dynamics and throughput of the bucket brigade in two environments with passing
and blocking. We present the dynamics of the system in each region of the
parameter space and provide insights and operating principles for the
implementation and management of the bucket brigades under various scenarios.
Source: Bucket Brigades Revisited: Are They Always Effective?[
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.08.044 ], Dieter Armbruster, Esma S. Gel,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.08.044, European Journal of Operational Research,
Article in Press, Corrected Proof, 2004/12/16

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