Unit load and material-handling considerations in facility layout design

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 2955-2989

  Castillo, Ignacio ^a   Peters, Brett A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MATERIALS HANDLING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 0037056073     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540210136531     Document Type: Article

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