Experimental results for the allocation of buffers in closed serial production lines

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-291

  Staley, Dan R ^a   Kim, David S ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer allocation; Closed; Production line design; Simulation experiment

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ALLOCATION; CLOSED; CLOSED PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION LINE DESIGN; SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84862782132     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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