Productivity of parallel production lines with unreliable machines and material handling

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-103

  Freiheit, Theodor ^a   Koren, Yoram ^a   Hu, S Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Material handling; Productivity; System analysis and design

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL;

PARALLEL SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION LINES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 3242718694     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2004.829410     Document Type: Article

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