Flexibility and responsiveness of machining environments

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 218-227

  Gindy, Nabil N ^a   Saad, Sameh M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

CONVENTIONAL MACHINE BASED METHODS; RESOURCE ELEMENT BASED SCHEDULING;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031636908     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09576069810217801     Document Type: Article

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