Combinatorial process and plant design for agile manufacture

Research in Engineering Design

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Borissova, A ^a   Fairweather, M ^a   Goltz, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agility; Combinatorial; Design; Option generation; Re configurability

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FLUID MECHANICS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; PROCESS CONTROL;

AGILITY; COMBINATORIAL; OPTION GENERATION; RE-CONFIGURABILITY;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748863369     PISSN: 09349839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00163-006-0013-7     Document Type: Article

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