THE BOTTLENECK ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM,

Abstract

A simple algorithm for solving either of two different bottleneck assignment problems is described in this paper. The one problem requires finding an assignment of men to machines in a serial production line to maximize the rate of flow through the line; the other requires finding an assignment for parallel production lines (one man per line) so as to minimize the time to do a given job. The two problems are essentially identical. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 06, 1959
Accession Number
AD0613686

Entities

People

  • O. Gross

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Production

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  • Operations Research