Part family formation for variety reduction in flexible manufacturing systems

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 291-304

  Offodile, O Felix ^a   Grznar, John ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular manufacture; Cluster analysis; Coding and classification systems; FMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543070003     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443579710159914     Document Type: Review

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