Measurement of manufacturing system flexibility with fuzzy set theory

2008 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering 15th Annual Conference Proceedings, ICMSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 713-718

  Guan, Jun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Degree of membership; Flexibility measuring module; Flexibility output surplus; Hierarchic analysis; Manufacturing system flexibility

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SET THEORY;

DEGREE OF MEMBERSHIP; FLEXIBILITY-MEASURING MODULE; FLEXIBILITY-OUTPUT SURPLUS; HIERARCHIC ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 57649218724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMSE.2008.4668991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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