Approaches to uncertainties in facility layout problems: Perspectives at the beginning of the 21st Century

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-284

  Kulturel Konak, Sadan ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic facility layout problem; Flexibility; Robustness; Stochastic facility layout problem; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS; FLEXIBILITY; STOCHASTIC FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 34547605047     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-007-0020-1     Document Type: Article

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