Scheduling approach for concurrent product development processes

Computers in Industry

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 139-147

  Yan, Ji Hong ^a,b,c   Wu, Cheng ^a,d,e  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^e Chinese Academy of Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Genetic algorithm; Heuristic algorithm; Optimization scheduling; Product development process

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 1542598600     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3615(01)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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