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Fifty years of the bowl phenomenon

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  • Tom Mcnamara

    (ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business)

  • Sabry Shaaban

    (Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle)

  • Sarah Hudson

    (ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business)

Abstract

This article provides an overview and update of the extant literature on the bowl phenomenon, fifty years after the seminal work of Hillier and Boling. It provides insights into the conditions under which unbalancing a production line with faster stations toward the center of the line in a ‘bowl shape' is effective. It further points to its relevance in modern-day production systems where outsourcing, flexibility needs and disassembly lines are proliferating, and suggests where research into the bowl phenomenon can usefully contribute to manufacturing needs in the future.

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  • Tom Mcnamara & Sabry Shaaban & Sarah Hudson, 2016. "Fifty years of the bowl phenomenon," Post-Print hal-02010636, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02010636
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2016.07.003
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    1. Sabry Shaaban & Rodrigo Romero-Silva, 2021. "Performance of merging lines with uneven buffer capacity allocation: the effects of unreliability under different inventory-related costs," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 29(4), pages 1253-1288, December.
    2. Federica Costa & Matthias Thürer & Alberto Portioli-Staudacher, 2023. "Heterogeneous worker multi-functionality and efficiency in dual resource constrained manufacturing lines: an assessment by simulation," Operations Management Research, Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 1476-1489, September.
    3. Romero-Silva, Rodrigo & Shaaban, Sabry & Marsillac, Erika & Laarraf, Zouhair, 2021. "The impact of unequal processing time variability on reliable and unreliable merging line performance," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).

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