Manufacturing flexibility measurement: A fuzzy logic framework

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-524

  Tsourveloudis, Nikos C ^a   Phillis, Yannis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Approximate reasoning; Flexibility types; Fuzzy logic; Manufacturing flexibility; Measurement

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS;

APPROXIMATE REASONING; FUZZY LOGIC; MANUFACTURING FLEXIBILITY;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 0032140272     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.704212     Document Type: Article

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