Assembly process design for managing manufacturing complexities because of product varieties

International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Fujimoto, Hideo ^a   Ahmed, Alauddin ^a   Iidda, Yasuhiro ^b   Hanai, Mineo ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assembly process design; Information entropy; Product variety

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PRODUCT DESIGN; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ASSEMBLY PROCESS DESIGN (APD); INFORMATION ENTROPY; PRODUCT VARIETY;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 19644365799     PISSN: 09206299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:FLEX.0000036032.41757.3d     Document Type: Article

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