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A Diagnostic Tree for Improving Production Line Performance
Author(s) -
Hopp Wallace J.,
Iravani Seyed M. R.,
Shou Biying
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00167.x
Subject(s) - computer science , tree (set theory) , production (economics) , performance improvement , intranet , operations management , the internet , engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , world wide web , economics , macroeconomics
Improving performance of production systems is a critical but often unstructured activity. To help managers convert ad hoc or trial & error improvement efforts into efficient and systematic reviews, we develop a diagnostic tree which decomposes a performance improvement objective into successively more concrete sub‐objectives and finally into potential improvement strategies. Based on principles from the Operations Management literature, this tree is structured to enable a non‐specialist to better understand the links between corrective actions and performance. It also provides an important foundation for a principles‐based knowledge management system that couples the decision tree with a search engine for locating relevant documents within an intranet.