LOCATION OF QUALITY INSPECTION STATIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF FIVE NORMATIVE HEURISTICS
研究了五种用于生产线上质量检验站定位的启发式规则，通过实验发现其中几种规则的有效性与其设计初衷不符，且加工环境约束会影响规则效果。
ABSTRACT A number of heuristic decision rules have been proposed to aid in the location of quality inspection stations within a production line. Although these rules apparently enjoy an intuitive appeal, as yet no empirical investigation of their individual efficacies has been undertaken. This research identifies the relations between various cost and/or process characteristics and a designated “operative condition” that motivates the apparent rationale of five of these rules‐of‐thumb. Experimental results suggest that for several of the heuristics the operative condition was not associated with the performance of the rule. In addition, constraints in the processing environment were found to influence the effectiveness of the heuristics.