A holistic method for finding out critical features of industry maintenance services

International Journal of Services and Standards

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 312-325

  Ranta, Juha Matti ^a,b   Takala, Josu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b Capricode   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Decision making; Maintenance; Multicriteria; Performance management; Process industry; Production; Service; Standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547113341     PISSN: 17408849     EISSN: 17408857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSS.2007.013752     Document Type: Article

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