Balancing of parallel assembly lines

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 600-609

  Gökçen, Hadi ^a   Aǧpak, Kürşad ^b   Benzer, Recep ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Parallel lines

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; PARALLEL LINES;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 33745833670     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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