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Production lines more often than not, they are chaotic, unpaced, and unbalanced. With this book, that can all stop. With this book, you will find an up-to-date discussion of how designing these lines can be made more efficient by taking advantage of inherent imbalance for example operators who work at different speeds a concept that has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to efficient production. The authors also detail experiments that are presented to illustrate the issues involved in improving performance through production line imbalance. If you are a postgraduate and executive-level student, or perhaps a manager of manual or semiautomated production lines, this book provides innovative approaches to line design. You will also find some surprisingly easy ways to improve performance with low or zero costs. Emphasis is placed on reducing the amount of time production lines lie idle and on reducing work in process. This is a timely contribution to the field when managers are casting around for new ways to cut waste and reduce their use of natural resources.