Improving the performance of cellular manufacturing by a dynamic part assignment approach

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 719-726

  Seifoddini, Hamid ^a   Djassemi, Manoocher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULING;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PART ASSIGNMENT;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030241881     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-8352(96)00024-1     Document Type: Article

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