Managing variances in manufacturing system design

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 571-586

  Kim, Ilhyung ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Production line design; Resource allocation; Stochastic models; Variance management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

PRODUCTION LINE DESIGN; STOCHASTIC MODELS; VARIANCE MANAGEMENT;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032168352     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(97)00151-3     Document Type: Article

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