Modeling and analysis of concrete production plant using petri nets

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 178-186

  Sawhney, Anil ^a   Abudayyeh, Osama ^a   Chaitavatputtiporn, Tavatchai ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING;

PROCESS MODELING;

CONCRETE INDUSTRY;

EID: 0033156904     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(1999)13:3(178)     Document Type: Article

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