Multi-criteria decision making for assembly line balancing

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-121

  Jolai, F ^a   Jahangoshai Rezaee, M ^a   Vazifeh, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; COMSOAL; Data envelopment analysis; Multi criteria decision

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; COMSOAL; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING (MCDM); PERFORMANCE MEASURE (PF);

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 58549107798     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-008-0107-3     Document Type: Article

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