Formation of machine cells and part families in cellular manufacturing systems using a linear assignment algorithm

Automatica

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1607-1615

  Wang, Jun ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cellular manufacturing systems; Clustering algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MACHINERY; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0042593089     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-1098(03)00150-X     Document Type: Article

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