Estimating job waiting times in production systems with cross-trained setup crews

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 999-1010

  Kula, Ufuk ^a   Duenyas, Izak ^a   Iravani, Seyed M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AVAILABILITY; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

CROSS TRAINING; JOB WAITING TIMES; SETUP CREWS; SETUP OPERATIONS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 4444296392     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490496218     Document Type: Article

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