Development of manufacturing control strategies using unsupervised machine learning

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-331

  Bowden, Royce ^a   Bullington, Stanley F ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL;

GENETIC ALGORITHM RULE DISCOVERY SYSTEM; JOB ROUTING; OPPORTUNISTIC CONTROL RULES; PROCESS SEQUENCE FLEXIBILITY; SIMULATED;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0030129864     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179608966279     Document Type: Article

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