Part family formation based on alternative routes during machine failure

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 73-76

  Jeon, Geonwook ^a   Broering, Marc ^a   Leep, Herman R ^a   Parsaei, Hamid R ^a   Wong, Julius P ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative Routes; Group Technology; Machine Failure; Similarity Coefficient

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

MACHINE FAILURES; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0032183917     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(98)00023-0     Document Type: Article

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