Modeling impact of product variety on performance in mixed-model assembly system: An artificial neural network meta-modeling approach

IEEM2010 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 798-802

  Rao, Yunqing ^a   Wang, Kunpeng ^a   Wang, Mengchang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Choice complexity; Error rate; Meta model; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; CHOICE COMPLEXITY; CHOICE PROCESS; ERROR RATE; INFORMATION ENTROPY; META MODEL; METAMODELING; MODEL ASSEMBLY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PRODUCT QUALITY; PRODUCT VARIETY; REACTION TIME;

ASSEMBLY; COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR REGRESSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78751685038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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