Assessing performance of Workload Control in High Variety Low Volumes MTO job shops: A simulative analysis

Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, IEEE IESM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 362-370

  Bertolini, Massimo ^a   Romagnoli, Giovanni ^a   Zammori, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Due Dates; Products' Families; Workload Control

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BOTTLENECKS; DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS; DISCRETE EVENTS SIMULATION; DUE DATES; JOB SHOP ENVIRONMENT; PRODUCTS' FAMILIES; SIMULATIVE ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD CONTROL;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84971633809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IESM.2015.7380184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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