Mixed model assembly line design in a make-to-order environment

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-421

  Bukchin, Joseph ^a   Dar El, Ezey M ^b   Rubinovitz, Jacob ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Design problem; Make to order; Mixed model assembly lines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; CONVEYORS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ASSEMBLY LINES;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES;

EID: 0036466886     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(01)00065-1     Document Type: Article

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