A combined multicriteria approach for cellular manufacturing layout

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 369-371

  Elwany, M H ^a   Khairy, A B ^a   Abou Ali, M G ^a   Harraz, N A ^a  

^a Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cellular; Decision making; Layout

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MULTICRITERIA APPROACH;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030656136     PISSN: 00078506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60845-2     Document Type: Article

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