Designing unpaced production lines to optimize throughput and work-in-process inventory

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 516-527

  Hillier, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

applications; heuristics; inventory; line balancing; Production; queueing; simulation

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; INVENTORY; LINE BALANCING; QUEUEING; SIMULATION;

APPLICATIONS; ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION;

THROUGHPUT;

EID: 84873667893     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2012.706733     Document Type: Article

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