Intelligent production control decision support system for flexible assembly lines

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4268-4277

  Guo, Z X ^a   Wong, W K ^a   Leung, S Y S ^a   Fan, J T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Flexible assembly lines; Genetic algorithms; Learning curves; Production control; Radio frequency identification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

DATA CAPTURE SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY LINES; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION CONTROL; LEARNING CURVES; OPERATIVE EFFICIENCIES; PRODUCTION CONTROL DECISIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 58349103925     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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