Designing manufacturing cells: A staged approach and a tabu search algorithm

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2531-2546

  Spiliopoulos, K ^a   Sofianopoulou, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0242301621     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0020754031000088156     Document Type: Article

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