A decision model for kitting and line stocking with variable operator walking distances

Assembly Automation

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-56

  Limère, Veronique ^a   Van Landeghem, Hendrik ^a   Goetschalckx, Marc ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

High variation; In plant logistics; Kitting; Materials supply; Mixed model assembly lines; Parts feeding

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; OUTSOURCING;

HIGH VARIATION; KITTING; MATERIALS SUPPLIES; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES; PLANT LOGISTICS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84921973004     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AA-05-2014-043     Document Type: Article

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