Designing productive manufacturing systems without buffers

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-108

  Freiheit, T ^a   Shpitalni, M ^b   Hu, S J ^a   Koren, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Faculty of Biomedical Engineering   (Israel)

Author keywords

Manufacturing system performance; Productivity; Reconfigurable

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MANUFACTURE; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

INVENTORY CARRYING COSTS; PRODUCTIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; WORK IN PROCESS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0042844639     PISSN: 00078506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60542-3     Document Type: Article

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