Assembly line balancing: Which model to use when?

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 509-528

  Boysen, Nils ^a   Fliedner, Malte ^a   Scholl, Armin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Classification; Configuration of assembly lines

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; CONFIGURATION OF ASSEMBLY LINES;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 37349007853     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.02.026     Document Type: Article

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