Delorme, Xavier; Dolgui, Alexandre; Kovalyov, Mikhail Y. - In: Omega 40 (2012) 1, pp. 31-41
The problem of equipment selection for a production line is considered. Each piece of equipment, also called unit or block, performs a set of operations. All necessary operations of the line and all available blocks with their costs are known. The difficulty is to choose the most appropriate...