An overview of tradeoff curves in manufacturing systems design

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-75

  Bitran, Gabriel R ^a   Morabito, Reinaldo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Manufacturing system design; Open queueing networks; Optimization and performance evaluation; Tradeoff curve analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011782147     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1999.tb00061.x     Document Type: Article

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