Design of flexible multi-stage processes

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194-203

  Eynan, Amit ^a   Dong, Lingxiu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

flexible capacity; flexible resource; multi stage process; process design; process flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855531069     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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