Towards balancing multiple competitiveness measures for improving business performance in manufacturing

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 550-569

  Prasad, Biren ^a  

^a Unigraphics Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing manufacturing competitiveness; business performance; cost to quality; customer satisfaction; effectiveness; inventory; measures of merits; performance efficiency; time to market; unscheduled changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745043336     PISSN: 13682148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMTM.2001.001429     Document Type: Article

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