Ford motor company implements integrated planning and scheduling in a complex automotive manufacturing environment

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Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 478-491

  Barlatt, Ada Y ^a   Cohn, Amy ^b   Gusikhin, Oleg ^c   Fradkin, Yakov ^c   Davidson, Rich ^c   Batey, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic schedule; Heuristic; Integer programming; Manufacturing; Workforce planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867833902     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1120.0650     Document Type: Article

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