Case study: Quality improvement model in a car seat assembly line

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 681-690

  Tsou, J C ^a   Chen, J M ^b,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

^c DSI ^*

Author keywords

6 sigma; Asymmetrical truncated loss function; Economics of production

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUALITY CONTROL;

6-SIGMA; ASYMMETRICAL TRUNCATED LOSS FUNCTION; ECONOMIC PRODUCTION QUANTITY (EPQ) MODEL; ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION;

AUTOMOBILE SEATS;

EID: 29644446303     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280500249223     Document Type: Article

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