On Modeling Line Balancing Problems in Spreadsheets

Cliff T. Ragsdale - crags@vt.edu
Evelyn C. Brown - evebrown@vt.edu
Department of Business Information Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061

Abstract

Ragsdale (2003) recently introduced an innovative approach to implementing project management networks in spreadsheets that greatly simplifies the handling of precedence relations among activities. This paper demonstrates how a similar technique can be used to create efficient spreadsheet models for line balancing problems.

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10.1287/ited.4.2.45

Citation Information
Ragsdale, C. T, Brown, E. C. 2004. On Modeling Line Balancing Problems in Spreadsheets. INFORMS Trans. Ed. 4(2) 45-48. Available online at http://ite.pubs.informs.org/.

DOI: 10.1287/ited.4.2.45