Productivity of parallel-serial manufacturing lines with and without crossover

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 533-540

  Freiheit, Theodor ^a   Shpitalni, Moshe ^a   Hu, S Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINERY; MACHINING; MANUFACTURE; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

BALANCED LINE; GENERAL METHOD; HIGH RELIABILITY; MACHINE FAILURE; MACHINING TRANSFER LINES; MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; PARALLEL LINE; PARALLEL OPERATIONS; PARALLEL-SERIAL MANUFACTURING LINES; PRODUCTION MACHINERY; PRODUCTIVITY GAIN; PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; SERIAL LINE; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; WORK-IN-PROCESS INVENTORY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 78249268497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2002-32846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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