Process flexibility under bill of material constraints: Part II-structural properties and improving principles

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1125-1142

  Hua, Zhongsheng ^a   He, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bill of material; Flexibility improvement; Manufacturing system; Process flexibility; Structural properties

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; BILL OF MATERIALS; COMPUTATION EFFORT; FLEXIBILITY IMPROVEMENT; FLEXIBILITY MEASUREMENT; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; PROCESS FLEXIBILITY; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEM LEVELS;

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MANUFACTURE;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 74549162751     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802534749     Document Type: Article

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