Job rotation in assembly lines employing disabled workers

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 625-632

  Costa, Alysson M ^a   Miralles, Cristóbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Disabled workers; Job rotation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY LINES; ASSEMBLY-LINE WORKERS; BALANCING PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DISABLED WORKERS; HEURISTIC DECOMPOSITION; JOB ROTATION; LINEAR MODEL; MIXED INTEGER; TASK EXECUTIONS;

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; HEURISTIC METHODS;

ROTATION;

EID: 67651174303     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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