Allocation of buffers to serial production lines with bottlenecks

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-29

  Powell, Stephen G ^a   Pyke, David F ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

BOTTLENECK; BUFFER ALLOCATION; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINES; UNBALANCED LINE;

PRODUCTION;

EID: 0029735339     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179608966249     Document Type: Article

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