Workload allocation in multi-product, multi-facility production systems with setup times

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 339-352

  Benjaafar, Saifallah ^a   Gupta, Diwakar ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

CYCLIC-EXHAUSTIVE POLLING POLICY; MULTI-FACILITY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) INVENTORY;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032628678     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007665315914     Document Type: Article

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