Effects of scheduling policies on the performance of transfer lines with duplicate stations

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 660-670

  Savsar, Mehmet ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Duplicate stations; Scheduling; Serial line; Transfer lines

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; MATERIALS HANDLING; PLANT LAYOUT; QUEUEING THEORY; SCHEDULING;

DUPLICATE STATIONS; TRANSFER LINES;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032184088     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095372898233650     Document Type: Article

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