Assembly line balancing when scrap impacts the bottom line

Production and Inventory Management Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 16-21

  Grabau, Mark R ^a,c   Maurer, Ruth A ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAINTENANCE; MANUFACTURE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; BOX-BEHNKEN DESIGN; SCRAP;

PRODUCTION;

EID: 0032089680     PISSN: 08978336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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