Some aspects of real-time production control in distributed flexible assembly systems

Assembly Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-67

  Ranky, Paul G ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SCHEDULING;

INTEGRATED ROBOT TOOL MANAGEMENT;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031681841     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445159810201289     Document Type: Article

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