A continuum model for a re-entrant factory

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 933-950

  Armbruster, Dieter ^a   Marthaler, Daniel E ^b   Ringhofer, Christian ^a   Kempf, Karl ^c   Jo, Tae Chang ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northrup Grumman Integrated Systems   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mathematics; Production scheduling: approximations; Simulations: efficiency

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR STATE EQUATIONS; RE-ENTRANT FACTORY; SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATIONS; WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 33645163100     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0321     Document Type: Review

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