How lean can lean buffers be?

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-342

  Enginarlar, Emre ^a   Li, Jingshan ^b   Meerkov, Semyon M ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

BUFFER CAPACITY; LEAN LEVEL-OF-BUFFERING; PRODUCTION LINE;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 15744394161     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590916878     Document Type: Article

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