Assembly line balancing and group working: A heuristic procedure for workers' groups operating on the same product and workstation

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2757-2774

  Dimitriadis, Sotirios G ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Heuristic methods

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; AUTOMOBILE ASSEMBLY; GROUP WORKING; MULTI-MANNED WORKSTATIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 30744451443     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.02.027     Document Type: Article

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