Improving the applicability of workload control (WLC): The influence of sequence-dependent set-up times on workload controlled job shops

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 6419-6430

  Thürer, Matthias ^a   Silva, Cristovao ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b   Land, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job shop control; Order release mechanism; Priority dispatching; Sequence dependent set up times; Workload control

Indexed keywords

JOB SHOP; PRIORITY DISPATCHING; RELEASE MECHANISM; SET-UP TIME; WORKLOAD CONTROL;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84868224912     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.648275     Document Type: Article

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