Design of dedicated, shared and remainder cells in a probabilistic demand environment

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5613-5646

  Suer, Gursel A ^a   Huang, Jing ^a   Maddisetty, Sripathi ^a  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular manufacture; heuristics; layered cellular design; maths programming; simulation; stochastic models

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY REQUIREMENT; CELL TYPES; CELLULAR DESIGN; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; CELLULAR SYSTEM; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; DESIGN CONFIGURATIONS; FLOW-TIME; HEURISTIC PROCEDURES; HEURISTICS; HIGH DEMAND; LAYERED CELLULAR DESIGN; OPERATING CONDITION; PART FAMILY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CELLULAR ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; HEURISTIC METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 77955571880     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903117865     Document Type: Article

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