Joint optimisation of maintenance and buffer size in a manufacturing system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 405-413

  Ribeiro, M A ^a   Silveira, J L ^a   Qassim, R Y ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Buffer size; Maintenance; Theory of constraints

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CAPACITY-CONSTRAINED RESOURCE; JOINT OPTIMISATION; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33749165905     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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