Process improvement for a container-filling process with random shifts

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-31

  Williams, William W ^a   Tang, Kwei ^a   Gong, Linguo ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Process improvement; Process mean; Process optimization; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347946327     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(99)00083-3     Document Type: Article

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