The performance of workload control concepts in job shops: Improving the release method

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 56-57, Issue , 1998, Pages 347-364

  Land, Martin J ^a   Gaalman, Gerard J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job shop; Order release; Workload control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; JOB ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT;

ORDER RELEASE METHOD; WORKLOAD CONTROL;

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 0032156960     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(98)00052-8     Document Type: Article

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