Process planning for aluminum tubes: An engineering-operations perspective

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-20

  Balakrishnan, Anantaram ^a   Brown, Stuart ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering; Medium And short term planning models; Process engineering, planning linkages. Industries, mining metals; Process planning for metal forming operations. Production scheduling, planning

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METAL FORMING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ALUMINUM TUBES; MEDIUM TERM PLANNING MODELS; PROCESS PLANNING; SHORT TERM PLANNING MODELS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0029774985     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.1.7     Document Type: Article

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