The copy-exactly ramp-up strategy: Trading-off learning with process change

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-84

  Terwiesch, Christian ^a   Xu, Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy exactly (CE); Learning; Process improvement; Product launch; Ramp up

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION;

COPY EXACTLY RAMP UP STRATEGY; DISCREPANCIES; LEARNING; PROCESS CHANGE; PRODUCTION RAMP UP;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542375890     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.822465     Document Type: Article

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