A scheduling problem in glass manufacturing

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-139

  He, David W ^a   Kusiak, Andrew ^a   Artiba, Artiba ^b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b Facultes Universitaires Catholiques de Mons   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLASS CUTTING MACHINES; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SIMULATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PRODUCTION FACILITY; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; SEMI-ORDERED PROCESSING TIMES;

GLASS MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0030081179     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179608966258     Document Type: Article

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