Split and merge production systems: Performance analysis and structural properties

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 422-434

  Liu, Yang ^a   Li, Jingshan ^a  

^a Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulate; Merge; Percentage; Priority; Split; Strictly circulate; Throughput

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CIRCULATE; CONTROL ACTIVITIES; MACHINE RELIABILITY; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PRODUCT QUALITY; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RECURSIVE PROCEDURE; ROUTING POLICIES; SPLIT-AND-MERGE;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 77951141401     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170903394348     Document Type: Article

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