Fat-tail inputs in manufacturing systems

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1089-1094

  Rai, Sudhendu ^a  

^a XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous cells; Fat tails; Manufacturing systems; Scheduling; Sequence dependent setups

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CELLS; FAT-TAILS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DIVERSITIES; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT SETUPS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SCHEDULING;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 63849278029     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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