Balancing parallel two-sided assembly lines

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4767-4784

  Özcan, Ǔur ^a   Gökcen, Hadi ^b   Toklu, Bilal ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Parallel assembly lines; Tabu search; Two sided assembly lines

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; COMPUTATIONAL PROPERTIES; PARALLEL ASSEMBLY LINES; PRODUCT TYPES; PRODUCTION LINE; TABU SEARCH ALGORITHMS; TEST PROBLEM; TWO-SIDED ASSEMBLY LINES;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; AUTOMOBILES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; TABU SEARCH;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 77953628540     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903074991     Document Type: Article

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