Process integration and improvement using systemic diagrams and a human-centred approach

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-135

  Clegg, Ben T ^a,b   Boardman, John T ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrent engineering; Process modelling; Project cycle time reduction (PCTR); Soft systems theory; Systemigram; Systems engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444268456     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293x9600400203     Document Type: Article

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