A solution approach to the disassembly line balancing problem in the presence of task failures

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1427-1467

  Güngör, Askiner ^a   Gupta, Surenda M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; PROCESS CONTROL; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SCHEDULING; THEOREM PROVING;

DISASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING PROBLEM; PRECEDENCE RELATIONSHIPS; TASK FAILURES;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0035837942     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540110052157     Document Type: Article

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