Total quality management of a production-maintenance system: A network approach

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 56-57, Issue , 1998, Pages 407-421

  Levner, Eugene ^a   Zuckerman, Dror ^b   Meirovich, Gavriel ^c  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER-EXPERT DIALOGUE; MULTI-CRITERIA MIXED-INTEGER MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION NETWORK ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION-MAINTENANCE SYSTEM;

TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0042545120     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(97)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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