Agile manufacturing in practice Application of a methodology

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 21, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 772-779

  Sharifi, H ^a,b   Zhang, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agile production; Manufacturing; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035593914     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570110390462     Document Type: Article

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