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Best Car Tires - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Alan B. Krueger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
    Social Science Research Network, 2003
    Co-Authors: Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas
    Abstract:

    This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone's Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data suggest that defects were particularly high around the time concessions were demanded and when large numbers of replacement workers and returning strikers worked side by side.

  • strikes scabs and tread separations labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone firestone tires
    Social Science Research Network, 2003
    Co-Authors: Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas
    Abstract:

    This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone's Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data suggest that defects were particularly high around the time concessions were demanded and when large numbers of replacement workers and returning strikers worked side by side.

Alexandre Mas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
    Social Science Research Network, 2003
    Co-Authors: Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas
    Abstract:

    This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone's Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data suggest that defects were particularly high around the time concessions were demanded and when large numbers of replacement workers and returning strikers worked side by side.

  • strikes scabs and tread separations labor strife and the production of defective Bridgestone firestone tires
    Social Science Research Network, 2003
    Co-Authors: Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas
    Abstract:

    This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone's Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data suggest that defects were particularly high around the time concessions were demanded and when large numbers of replacement workers and returning strikers worked side by side.

Linus Schrage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Tire Production Scheduling System for Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road
    Operations Research, 1997
    Co-Authors: Zeger Degraeve, Linus Schrage
    Abstract:

    We describe a scheduling system for the curing operation at Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road (BFOR), a manufacturer of large tires for heavy off-the-road machines such as trucks, tractors, and earthmoving equipment used in the construction, lumber, and mining industries. The huge tires, having different priorities, are built in molds and put into heaters for the curing process. The problem is to find a feasible assignment of tires to molds and molds to heaters to achieve a maximum total priority. Our system produces about 7% more tires per shift compared to the previous manual way of developing schedules and moves the company toward its goal of quick response manufacturing with low inventories. The core algorithm is a column generation procedure to produce a production schedule for one work shift. This approach is then used in a “rolling horizon” fashion. The size of the problem posed several computational challenges. Computational efficiencies come from (1) a dramatic effort to eliminate alternative so...

  • a tire production scheduling system for Bridgestone firestone off the road
    Operations Research, 1997
    Co-Authors: Zeger Degraeve, Linus Schrage
    Abstract:

    We describe a scheduling system for the curing operation at Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road (BFOR), a manufacturer of large tires for heavy off-the-road machines such as trucks, tractors, and earthmoving equipment used in the construction, lumber, and mining industries. The huge tires, having different priorities, are built in molds and put into heaters for the curing process. The problem is to find a feasible assignment of tires to molds and molds to heaters to achieve a maximum total priority. Our system produces about 7% more tires per shift compared to the previous manual way of developing schedules and moves the company toward its goal of quick response manufacturing with low inventories. The core algorithm is a column generation procedure to produce a production schedule for one work shift. This approach is then used in a “rolling horizon” fashion. The size of the problem posed several computational challenges. Computational efficiencies come from (1) a dramatic effort to eliminate alternative so...

Zeger Degraeve - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Tire Production Scheduling System for Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road
    Operations Research, 1997
    Co-Authors: Zeger Degraeve, Linus Schrage
    Abstract:

    We describe a scheduling system for the curing operation at Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road (BFOR), a manufacturer of large tires for heavy off-the-road machines such as trucks, tractors, and earthmoving equipment used in the construction, lumber, and mining industries. The huge tires, having different priorities, are built in molds and put into heaters for the curing process. The problem is to find a feasible assignment of tires to molds and molds to heaters to achieve a maximum total priority. Our system produces about 7% more tires per shift compared to the previous manual way of developing schedules and moves the company toward its goal of quick response manufacturing with low inventories. The core algorithm is a column generation procedure to produce a production schedule for one work shift. This approach is then used in a “rolling horizon” fashion. The size of the problem posed several computational challenges. Computational efficiencies come from (1) a dramatic effort to eliminate alternative so...

  • a tire production scheduling system for Bridgestone firestone off the road
    Operations Research, 1997
    Co-Authors: Zeger Degraeve, Linus Schrage
    Abstract:

    We describe a scheduling system for the curing operation at Bridgestone/Firestone Off-The-Road (BFOR), a manufacturer of large tires for heavy off-the-road machines such as trucks, tractors, and earthmoving equipment used in the construction, lumber, and mining industries. The huge tires, having different priorities, are built in molds and put into heaters for the curing process. The problem is to find a feasible assignment of tires to molds and molds to heaters to achieve a maximum total priority. Our system produces about 7% more tires per shift compared to the previous manual way of developing schedules and moves the company toward its goal of quick response manufacturing with low inventories. The core algorithm is a column generation procedure to produce a production schedule for one work shift. This approach is then used in a “rolling horizon” fashion. The size of the problem posed several computational challenges. Computational efficiencies come from (1) a dramatic effort to eliminate alternative so...