Performance evaluation of an automatic transfer line with WIP scrapping during long failures

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-83

  Liberopoulos, George ^a   Kozanidis, George ^a   Tsarouhas, Panagiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Material scrapping; Performance evaluation; Transfer line

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MATERIAL SCRAPPING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TRANSFER LINE;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33847301475     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1060.0118     Document Type: Article

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