Designing a mixed-model assembly line to minimize the costs of idle and utility times

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 609-628

  Sarker, Bhaba R ^a   Pan, Haixu ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b A Plus Manufacturing Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINE;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032118472     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(97)00320-3     Document Type: Article

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