Manufacturing cell formation using similarity coefficients and pair-wise interchange: Formulation and comparison

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-21

  Balakrishnan, Jaydeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular manufacturing algorithms; CRAFT; Similarity coefficients; Spreadsheets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPREADSHEETS;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING ALGORITHMS; PAIR WISE INTERCHANGE; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CRAFT;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0029753215     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537289608930320     Document Type: Article

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