A review of the A400m final assembly line balancing methodology

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1431, Issue , 2012, Pages 601-608

  Rios J ^a   Mas, F ^b   Menendez J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly line balancing; Assembly line modeling; Assembly workload smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863335356     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4707614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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