A pragmatic view on process capability studies

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 319-330

  Deleryd, Mats ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Implementation; Process capability indices; Process capability studies; Variation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY;

PROCESS CAPABILITY INDEX;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032754888     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(98)00214-X     Document Type: Article

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