Robust balancing of mixed model assembly line

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1489-1502

  Xu, Weida ^a   Xiao, Tianyuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Multimodel lines; Programming and algorithm theory

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MODELS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INPUT DATAS; LONG-RUN PERFORMANCE; MIN-MAX; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES; MULTI-MODEL; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM THEORY; ROBUST BALANCING; ROBUST CRITERIA; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SCENARIO PLANNING; TASK ELEMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FENCES; OPTIMIZATION; RISK PERCEPTION;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 77249137445     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321640910992038     Document Type: Article

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