Lead time control in multi-class multi-stage assembly systems with finite capacity

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 808-817

  Yaghoubi, Saeed ^a   Noori, Siamak ^a   Azaron, Amir ^b,c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assembly systems; Markov processes; Multiple objective programming

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS-TIME MARKOV PROCESS; CONTINUOUS-TIME PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; FIRST COME FIRST SERVED; MULTI-OBJECTIVE MODELING; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ASSEMBLY; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MANUFACTURE; MARKOV PROCESSES; RIVETING;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 84887069802     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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