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Reducing work-in-process inventory in certain classes of flexible manufacturing systems

J. George Shanthikumar, Kathryn E. Stecke

European Journal of Operational Research · 1986 · 58 citations · 14 references

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EngineeringIndustrial EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringInventory ControlInventory ManagementManufacturing SystemsFlexible Manufacturing SchedulingFlexible Manufacturing SystemsInventory Management SystemsInventory ReductionManufacturing ConstraintsWork-in-process ControlFlexibility In Production SystemsFlexible ManufacturingFlexible Production SystemsProduction-inventory SystemsWork-in-processWork-in-process Inventory ManagementWork-in-process Inventory Reduction

References

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Formulation and Solution of Nonlinear Integer Production Planning Problems for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Kathryn E. Stecke · Management Science · 1983 · 655 citations

Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +17

Models for Understanding Flexible Manufacturing Systems

John A. Buzacott, J. George Shanthikumar · A I I E Transactions · 1980 · 279 citations

Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +17

A Branch and Bound Approach for Machine Load Balancing in Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Mohammed Berrada, Kathryn E. Stecke · Management Science · 1986 · 209 citations

Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +17

The Optimality of Unbalancing Both Workloads and Machine Group Sizes in Closed Queueing Networks of Multiserver Queues

Kathryn E. Stecke, James J. Solberg · Operations Research · 1985 · 161 citations

Business, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +17

Robustness of queuing network formulas

Rajan Suri · Journal of the ACM · 1983 · 136 citations · Full text

Business, Information Technology, Computer Networks +8