استقرار کارگران موقت در عملیات مونتاژ: مطالعه موردی هزینه های پنهان یادگیری و فراموش کردن

Our in-depth case analyses shows that assigning skilled permanent workers to upstream build operations was superior to other policies deploying temporary workers, regardless of lot size or product complexity. Attesting to the importance of the labor mix component of manufacturing strategy, workforce deployment policies tended to dominate product switching frequency (a proxy variable for lot size and product mix) in impacting costs.