Measuring modularity-based manufacturing practices and their impact on mass customization capability: A customer-driven perspective

Decision Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-168

  Tu, Qiang ^a   Vonderembse, Mark A ^b   Ragu Nathan, T S ^b   Ragu Nathan, Bhanu ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing Strategy; Modularity Based Manufacturing Practices; Process Choice Design; Product Planning; Structural Equation Models; Survey Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844338815     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.00117315.2004.02663.x     Document Type: Article

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