Design of manufacturing cells in the presence of alternative cell locations and material transporters

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1059-1075

  Logendran, R ^a   Karim, Y ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular manufacturing; Heuristics; Mathematical modeling; Nonlinear integer programming; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; MATERIAL TRANSPORTER; NONLINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMMING; TABU SEARCH;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141680809     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601608     Document Type: Article

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