A modification of simplified drum-buffer-rope for re-entrant flow shop scheduling

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-50

  Chang, Y C ^a   Huang, W T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drum buffer rope; Flow shop; Re entry; Scheduling; Theory of constraints

Indexed keywords

MACHINE SHOP PRACTICE; REENTRY; ROPE;

BOTTLENECK MACHINES; CRITICAL RATIO; DISPATCHING RULES; DRUM-BUFFER-ROPE; FLOW-SHOPS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; RE-ENTRANT FLOW SHOPS; THEORY OF CONSTRAINT;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 78651364775     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2011.40.50     Document Type: Article

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