Innovative ship block assembly production control using a flexible curved block job shop

Journal of Ship Production

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 206-213

  Dong, Fang ^a   Parvin, Hoda ^a   Van Oyen, Mark P ^a   Singer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Model testing; Operations (general); Production resources; Shipbuilding

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; HIGH COSTS; HIGH VARIABILITY; JOB SHOP; MODEL TESTING; OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; OPERATIONS (GENERAL); PRODUCTION RESOURCES; PRODUCTION WORKLOADS; QUEUING NETWORK; SERVICE INDUSTRIES; SHIP PRODUCTION; SIMULATION TESTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SHIPBUILDING; SHIPS; SHIPYARDS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 73249144350     PISSN: 87561417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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