@article{Campos_Ferreira_Freires_2021, title={Time variability management and trade-off analysis of quality, productivity, and maintenance efficiency}, volume={18}, url={https://bjopm.org.br/bjopm/article/view/1124}, DOI={10.14488/BJOPM.2021.018}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Goal:</strong> This research aims to examine the trade-off behaviour between productivity, quality and maintenance performance and evaluate the efficiency of the framework integrated to a time variability in operational management. </p> <p><strong>Design / Methodology / Approach: </strong>The proposed framework integrates a stochastic analysis of process and TVM to manage process variability and analyse the trade-off behaviour between quality, productivity, and maintenance efficiency. The framework generates a control chart for each workstation and analyses the operator’s time to execute an assembly process for six workstations. The processes are characterised and evaluated via stochastic simulation, resulting in a trade-off analysis with a multicriteria approach.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>A relational graphic of performance dimensions shows that productivity and maintenance performance have a high dependency on time variability management, whereas quality has a minor impact over trade-off decisions. The proposed framework has a huge significance to operational management which allow to apply complex models to time variability analysis and organisation performance.</p> <p><strong>Limitations of the investigation: </strong>The trade-off analysis in this study is limited to a constant trade-off model to validate the framework.</p> <p><strong>Practical implications: </strong>This framework, used in association with traditional management philosophies, is a powerful tool that permits managers to develop a trade-off analysis and make decisions on workstations. Thus, a research field that correlates time variability with performance dimensions may be validated by this framework.</p> <p> <strong>Originality / Value: </strong>A framework that allows the use of MCDM to analyse the trade-off behaviour on organization performance and a trade-off analysis between performance dimensions and time variability management in operational performance.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management}, author={Campos, João Thiago de Guimarães Anchieta e Araujo and Ferreira, Adonias Magdiel Silva and Freires, Francisco Gaudêncio Mendonça}, year={2021}, month={Apr.}, pages={1–19} }