Performance evaluation of workflow scheduling strategies considering transportation times and conveyor failures

2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 389-394

  Merdan, Munir ^a   Moser, Thomas ^a   Wahyudin, Dindin ^a   Biffl, Stefan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated simulation; MAST; Scheduling strategies; Transportation failure handling

Indexed keywords

CONVEYORS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL LABORATORIES; MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION;

AUTOMATED SIMULATION; DYNAMIC WORKFLOW; MAST; ON-MACHINES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; SCHEDULING STRATEGIES; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; TRANSPORT TIME; WORKFLOW SCHEDULING; WORKFLOW SIMULATIONS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 62749184912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2008.4737897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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