A tight flow control for job-shop fabrication lines with finite buffers

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-83

  Toba, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow control; Manufacturing control; Scheduling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW CONTROL; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SCHEDULING; SIMULATORS; THROUGHPUT;

BUFFERS; FABRICATION LINES; MANUFACTURING CONTROL; WORK-IN-PROCESS (WIP);

THIN FILMS;

EID: 12844261681     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2004.829440     Document Type: Article

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