Simultaneous consideration of scalable-reconfigurable manufacturing system investment and operating costs

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carlo, Hector J ^a   Patrick Spicer, J ^b   Rivera Silva, Adamaris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

inventory control; manufacturing system design; multiple products; optimization; scalable reconfigurable equipment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; INVESTMENTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MANUFACTURE; OPERATING COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COST OF INVENTORIES; EQUIPMENT INVESTMENT; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MULTI-PRODUCT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTS; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; SCALABLE RECONFIGURABLE EQUIPMENTS;

COSTS;

EID: 84856051332     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4005305     Document Type: Article

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