Order batching and time efficiency in kit preparation

Assembly Automation

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 143-148

  Hanson, Robin ^a   Medbo, Lars ^a   Johansson, Mats I ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assembly; Batching; Kitting; Mixed model assembly; Order picking

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COST REDUCTION;

BATCH PREPARATION; BATCHING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; KITTING; MIXED MODELING; ORDER PICKING; TIME EFFICIENCIES; VEHICLE ASSEMBLY;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84921987115     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AA-05-2014-046     Document Type: Article

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