Advances in assembly line parts feeding policies: A literature review

Assembly Automation

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-68

  Kilic, Huseyin Selcuk ^a   Durmusoglu, Mehmet Bulent ^b  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assembly line; Feeding policy; Hybrid feeding

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT;

ASSEMBLY LINE; CASE-STUDIES; CLASSIFICATION STRUCTURE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FEEDING SYSTEM; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY;

FEEDING;

EID: 84921952270     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AA-05-2014-047     Document Type: Review

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