Process and product improvement in manufacturing systems with correlated stages

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 591-606

  Zantek, Paul F ^a,b   Wright, Gordon P ^a,b   Plante, Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Investments in learning; Multistage manufacturing systems; Quality and process improvement; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ECONOMIC MODEL; INVESTMENTS IN LEARNING; MULTISTAGE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PROCESS AND PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 0036564798     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.5.591.7804     Document Type: Article

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