Self-buffering, self-balancing, self-flushing production lines

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1151-1164

  Zavadlav, Emil ^a   McClain, John O ^a   Thomas, L Joseph ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Line Balancing; Low WIP; On the fly Assignment; U Shaped; Work Sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000906215     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.8.1151     Document Type: Article

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