Look-ahead strategies for controlling batch operations in industry - An overview

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1480-1487

  Van der Zee, Durk Jouke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; FABRICATION; FORECASTING; OVENS; SCHEDULING; SILICON WAFERS; THROUGHPUT;

BATCH PROCESSING; MATERIAL HANDLING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 1642559538     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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