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Publication: IIE Transactions
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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A multistage system refers to a system consisting of multiple components, stations or stages to finish the final product or service. Practitioners have readily recognized that the final product or service quality of a multistage system is determined by complex interactions among multiple stages - the quality characteristics of one stage are determined by aggregated effects from both the current stage and the upstream stages. The final quality is an accumulation (or stack up) of variations from all stages. Depending on the complexity of a system, the configurations of multistage operations may be serial, parallel, hybrid or iterative. Thus, the stack up of quality variations may not be simply additive; it...

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