Robust manufacturing line design with controlled moderate robustness in bottleneck buffer time to manage stochastic inter-task times

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 382-391

  Nazarian, Ehsan ^a   Ko, Jeonghan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer time; Conservatism level; Manufacturing line design; Robust optimization; Stochastic inter task time

Indexed keywords

BUFFER TIME; CONSERVATISM LEVEL; MANUFACTURING LINES; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC INTER-TASK TIME;

BUFFER STORAGE; DESIGN; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84875263169     PISSN: 02786125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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