Scheduling a flowline manufacturing cell with sequence dependent family setup times

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 324-339

  Schaller, Jeffrey E ^a   Gupta, Jatinder N D ^b   Vakharia, Asoo J ^c  

^a EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PART FAMILY SEQUENCE DEPENDENT SETUPS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0033720051     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00387-2     Document Type: Article

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