The reconfiguration issues in manufacturing systems

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 277-283

  Saad, Sameh M ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple objective optimisation; Reconfiguration; Simulation; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (HMS);

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0037804757     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(03)00085-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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