The product rate variation problem and its relevance in real world mixed-model assembly lines

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 818-824

  Boysen, Nils ^a   Fliedner, Malte ^b   Scholl, Armin ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Level scheduling; Mixed model assembly lines; Product rate variation problem; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; BIPED LOCOMOTION; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RIVETING; SCHEDULING;

APPROXIMATE MODELS; ASSEMBLY LINES; COMMON-BASE; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; JUST-IN-TIME; LEVEL SCHEDULING; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES; MODEL ASSEMBLIES; PRODUCT RATE VARIATION PROBLEM; PRODUCT RATES; PRODUCTION PROCESS; PRODUCTION SEQUENCES; SEQUENCING; SEQUENCING PROBLEMS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 60649091091     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.06.038     Document Type: Article

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