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IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 22-32

  Liao, Da Yin ^a   Fu, Hsien Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

300 mm AHMS management; Discrete event simulation; OHT allocation and dispatching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOISTS; MATERIALS HANDLING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; THROUGHPUT;

AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM; OVERHEAD HOIST TRANSPORT; OVERHEAD HOIST TRANSPORT ALLOCATION AND DISPATCHING;

FACTORY AUTOMATION;

EID: 5144231627     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2004.1337824     Document Type: Article

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