Achieving flexible manufacturing competence: The roles of advanced manufacturing technology and operations improvement practices

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 580-599

  Zhang, Qingyu ^a   Vonderembse, Mark A ^b   Cao, Mei ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced manufacturing technologies; Competences; Flexible manufacturing systems; Operations management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646896728     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570610666957     Document Type: Article

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