Performance evaluation for a footwear manufacturing system with multiple production lines and different station failure rates

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1603-1617

  Lin, Yi Kuei ^a   Chang, Ping Chen ^a   Chen, James C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision making; Different failure rates; Footwear manufacturing; Multiple production lines; System reliability

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY ANALYSIS; FAILURE RATE; MANUFACTURING NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PRODUCTION LINE; PRODUCTION STRATEGY; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; SYSTEM STATE;

BENCHMARKING; DECISION MAKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

SHOE MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84871198164     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2012.718451     Document Type: Article

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