Implementing team-based cells in Australia: A configurational process approach

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 47-59

  Badham, Richard ^a   Couchman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATIONAL PROCESS APPROACH; SMART MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; TEAM BASED MANUFACTURING CELLS;

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MACHINERY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0030367902     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09576069610129919     Document Type: Article

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