Reverse engineering and rapid tooling as enablers of agile manufacturing

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-72

  Onuh, Spencer ^a   Bennett, Nick ^a   Hughes, Vince ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agile manufacturing; CAD; data transfer; rapid prototyping; reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846214634     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2006.008859     Document Type: Article

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