Balancing assembly lines: an industrial case study

DOI10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601708zbMath1060.90686MaRDI QIDQ4661025

Angel Ruiz, Sophie D. Lapierre

Publication date: 4 April 2005

Published in: Journal of the Operational Research Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601708

zbMATH Keywords

heuristics; manufacturing; sequencing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C59: Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming

90B30: Production models

90B90: Case-oriented studies in operations research

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