Reducing flow time in aircraft manufacturing

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-52

  Chao, Jackson S ^a   Graves, Stephen C ^a  

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Author keywords

Aircraft manufacturing; Flow time reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040904922     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1998.tb00437.x     Document Type: Article

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