An MILP approach to automated wet-etch station scheduling

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1391-1399

  Bhushan, Swarnendu ^a   Karimi, I A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATERIALS HANDLING; SCHEDULING;

WET-ETCHING;

ETCHING;

AUTOMATION; ETCHING; FLOW ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BATCH FERMENTATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTINUOUS TIME MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLICY; SEMICONTINUOUS FERMENTATION; WET ETCHING;

EID: 0042848882     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie020296c     Document Type: Article

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