A diagnostic tree for improving production line performance

Wallace J. Hopp; Seyed M.R. Iravani; Biying Shou

doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00167.x

A diagnostic tree for improving production line performance

Wallace J. Hopp^*, Seyed M.R. Iravani, Biying Shou

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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	77-92
Number of pages	16
Journal	Production and Operations Management
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00167.x
State	Published - 2007

Keywords

Diagnostic tree
Factory physics
Knowledge management

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Management Science and Operations Research
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Management of Technology and Innovation

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