New approach for assembly line balancing problems

36th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, ICC and IE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3886-3897

  Kao, Hsiu Hsueh ^a   Yeh, Din Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Critical path method; Parallel; U type

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING PROBLEMS; CRITICAL PATH METHOD; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PARALLEL; TOTAL PROCESSING TIME; U-TYPE;

ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; TURNAROUND TIME;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 58149510231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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