Make or buy analysis for rapid manufacturing

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-29

  Ruffo, Massimiliano ^a   Tuck, Chris ^a   Hague, Richard ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Make or buy decisions; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

MAINSTREAM MANUFACTURING PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; RAPID MANUFACTURING (RM);

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 33846332772     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540710719181     Document Type: Article

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