Benchmarking performance measurement and lean manufacturing in the rough mill

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 25-30

  Cumbo, Dan ^a,c   Kline, D Earl ^a,c   Bumgardner, Matthew S ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAN MANUFACTURING; PRODUCT FLOW; PRODUCTS VALUE; ROUGH MILL;

BENCHMARKING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 33745946072     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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