Optimization of production control policies in failure-prone homogenous transfer lines

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-222

  Lavoie, Philippe ^a   Kenne, Jean Pierre ^a   Gharbi, Ali ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Production policies; Response surface; Simulation; Transfer lines

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BUFFER CAPACITIES; LONG LINES; MACHINE LINES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PROBLEM COMPLEXITIES; PRODUCTION POLICIES; RESPONSE SURFACE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGIES; SIMULATION; TRANSFER LINES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 58249092203     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802375760     Document Type: Article

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