Whitney, Daniel; Peschard, Guillermo; Artzner, Denis - 2002
This paper analyzes the basic performance of 27 automobile engine linesoperated by 18 companies on three continents … capital-intensive. Thus a traditional "hours/engine"metric of performance is inappropriate. Here a composite cost … comprisinglabor and amortization of capital, accounting for downtime, is used tocompare plant performance. We find that performance …