A survey of the self-balancing production lines ("bucket brigades")

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-158

  Bratcu, Antoneta Iuliana ^a   Dolgui, Alexandre ^b  

^a DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

^b Div Indust Eng Comp Sci E   (France)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Bucket brigades; Self balancing

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ASSEMBLY LINES; BUCKET BRIGADES; SELF-BALANCING;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 17444419055     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-004-5885-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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