Equipment location in machining transfer lines with multi-spindle heads

Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-133

  Battaïa, Olga ^a   Gurevsky, Evgeny ^a   Makssoud, Fatme ^a   Dolgui, Alexandre ^a  

^a Henri FAYOL institute   (France)

Author keywords

Equipment location; Lines configuration; Machining transfer lines; Pre processing procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881058026     PISSN: 15701166     EISSN: 15729214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10852-012-9196-2     Document Type: Article

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