Evolutionary approach to select a pull system among Kanban, Conwip and Hybrid

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-167

  Gaury, E G A ^a   Pierreval, H ^b   Kleijnen, J P C ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratoire Inter établissement d Informatique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; KANBAN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; PULL PRODUCTION-CONTROL STRATEGY;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0033749924     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008938816257     Document Type: Article

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