Allocation of buffer capacity to minimize average work-in-process

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 706-716

  Kim, Sooyoung ^a   Lee, Haeng Ju ^b,c  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer allocation; Flow shop; Minimization of WIP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

BUFFER ALLOCATION;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035497187     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280010024072     Document Type: Article

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