Note on Toyota's goal of sequencing mixed models on an assembly line

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-65

  Xiaobo, Zhao ^a   Zhou, Zhaoying ^b   Asres, Ainishet ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SCHEDULING;

GOAL CHASING ALGORITHMS; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES;

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 0032688594     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(98)00113-2     Document Type: Article

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