Integrating reconfiguration cost into the design of multi-period scalable reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 202-210

  Spicer, Patrick ^a   Carlo, Hector J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Integer partitions; Reconfiguration cost model; Scalable reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

INTEGER PARTITIONS; RECONFIGURATION COST MODELS; RECONFIGURATION COSTS; SCALABLE RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248137532     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2383196     Document Type: Article

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