Plant layout improvements to a medium volume manufacturing system using systematic techniques to form just-in-time manufacturing cells

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-124

  Khan, M K ^a   Gwee, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Matsushita Precision Industrial   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Just in time; Manufacturing cells; Plant layout; Production flow analysis

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURE; MODERNIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

PRODUCTION FLOW ANALYSIS;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 0030676491     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954405971516112     Document Type: Article

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