Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems with parallel lines

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1824-1829

  Li, Jingshan ^a  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLY; CONVERGENT RECURSIVE PROCEDURE; OVERLAPPING DECOMPOSITION; PARALLEL PRODUCTION LINES; PRODUCTION RATE;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 7244239535     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.835584     Document Type: Article

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