An integrated framework for continuous assessment and improvement of manufacturing systems

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1216-1233

  Azadeh, A ^a   Ghaderi, S F ^a   Partovi Miran, Y ^a   Ebrahimipour, V ^a,b   Suzuki, K ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multivariate statistics integrated assessment; Productivity and competitiveness

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICS;

CLUSTERING ANALYSIS APPROACH; CORRELATION EXPERIMENTS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS INTEGRATED ASSESSMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 33947686746     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.07.152     Document Type: Article

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