A mathematical approach for the formation of manufacturing cells

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 3-21

  Albadawi, Zahir ^a   Bashir, Hamdi A ^b   Chen, Mingyuan ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell formation; Cellular manufacturing; Factor analysis; Integer programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CELL FORMATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES;

MACHINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 10844277235     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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