About the efficiency and cost reduction of parallel mixed-model assembly lines

The Future of Product Development - Proceedings of the 17th CIRP Design Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 483-492

  Hazbany, S ^a   Gilad, I ^a   Shpitalni, M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Heuristic method; Manufacturing system

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MANUFACTURE;

ASSEMBLY LINE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MIXED MODELING; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES; MODEL PARTITIONING; NEW APPROACHES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SINGLE MODELS;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84891488740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69820-3_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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