| Article ID: | iaor1995504 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 97 |
| End Page Number: | 113 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
| Journal: | Production and Operations Management |
| Authors: | Liang Ming, Dutta S.P. |
Loading too many or too few copies of tools may result in waste of tool magazine slots and unnecessary machine shutdowns. This is a consequence of not integrating the tool-configuration problem with other flexible manufacturing system (