A quantitative field study of the decision behaviour of four shopfloor schedulers |
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Authors: | VINCENT C S WIERS |
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Institution: | Graduate School of Industrial Engineering and Management Science , Eindhoven University of Technology , PO Box 513, Eindhoven, MB, NL-5600, The Netherlands E-mail: e-mail: v.c.s.wiers@bdk.tue.nl. |
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Abstract: | In this article the decision behaviour of four production schedulers in a truck manufacturing company is investigated by means of a quantitative model. The model consists of there parts: performance variables, action variables and disturbance variables. The outcomes show that there is a large difference between schedulers that apparently have the same type of decision problem. Another interesting finding is that some scheduling actions work positively in the short term, but negatively over a longer term. Other results, along with methodological issues of quantitative research, are discussed. |
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Keywords: | human decision behaviour quantitative decision models job shop scheduling |
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