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Assembly line balancing with parallel workstations and dead time

JONATHAN F. BARD Associate Professor, Operations Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
Pages 1005-1018 | Received 01 May 1988, Published online: 28 Mar 2007

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