Back-of-the-envelope miniload throughput bounds and approximations

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-285

  Foley, Robert D ^a   Hackman, Steven T ^a   Park, Byung Chun ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Keimyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED STORAGE; MINILOAD SYSTEM DESIGN; RETRIEVAL SYSTEM;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 1142281119     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490274232     Document Type: Article

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