Balancing of manufacturing systems with complex configurations for delayed product differentiation

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4285-4308

  Ko, Jeonghan ^a   Jack Hu, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing; Complex asymmetric configurations; Delayed product differentiation; Manufacturing systems

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

(R ,S)-SYMMETRIC; ASYMMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; ASYMMETRIC SYSTEMS; BINARY INTEGER PROGRAMMING (BIT); COMPLEX CONFIGURATIONS; CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS; LINE BALANCING; MACHINE ASSIGNMENT; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MIXED MODEL PRODUCTION; NEW MODEL; PARALLEL MACHINES; PRECEDENCE RELATIONS; PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION; PRODUCT VARIETY; SERIAL LINES; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; TASK RELATIONS; WORK LOAD BALANCING;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 46149112187     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540601078047     Document Type: Article

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