Proceedings of the Second ORSA/TIMS Conference on Flexible Manufacturing Systems--Operations Research Models and Applications, Held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A., August 12-15, 1986, Volume 2Kathryn E. Stecke, Rajan Suri For the growing numbers of people in industry, academia and government who are involved with Flexible Manufacturing Systems, these Proceedings present state-of-the art knowledge about FMSs including Flexible Assembly Systems (FASs). |
Contents
Manufacturing Technology Policy and Deployment of Processing | 1 |
A Case in FMS Justification | 17 |
A Mathematical Programming Formulation of Elements of Manufacturing | 31 |
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