A Benchmarking Service for the evaluation and comparison of scheduling techniques

Computers in Industry

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 656-666

  Cavalieri, Sergio ^a   Terzi, Sergio ^a   Macchi, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Performance measurement; Plant management; Scheduling evaluation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS CONTROL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; SCHEDULING EVALUATION;

BENCHMARKING; PLANT MANAGEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 34447307395     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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