Capacity planning for phased implementation of flexible manufacturing systems under budget restrictions

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 175-186

  Lim, Seung Kil ^a   Kim, Yeong Dae ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Flexible manufacturing systems; Lagrangean heuristic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CAPACITY PLANNING; MULTIPLIER ADJUSTMENT METHOD; SUBGRADIENT OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031698542     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00328-1     Document Type: Article

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