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Performance evaluation of unbalanced serial production lines

C.-M. LIU Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROCView further author information
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C.-L. LIN Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
Pages 2897-2914 | Received 01 Dec 1993, Published online: 07 May 2007

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