Guidelines for selection of manufacturing simulation software

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-29

  Hlupic, Vlatka ^a   Paul, Ray J ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION;

AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0032672684     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007568516643     Document Type: Article

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