Grouping machines for effective workload control

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-142

  Henrich, Peter ^a   Land, Martin ^a   Gaalman, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Machine grouping; Parameter setting; Pooling effect; Routeing decision rules; Simulation; Workload control (WLC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

MACHINE GROUPING; POOLING EFFECT; ROUTEING DECISION RULES; WORKLOAD CONTROL (WLC);

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747110239     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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