Scheduling in robotic cells: Classification, two and three machine cells

Operations Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 421-439

  Hall, Nicholas G ^a   Kamoun, Hichem ^b   Sriskandarajah, Chelliah ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MACHINERY; MANUFACTURE; MATERIALS HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; ROBOTICS;

PRODUCTION CYCLE TIME; ROBOTIC CELLS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0031142587     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.45.3.421     Document Type: Article

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