Measuring the impact of Lean tools on the cost-time investment of a product using cost-time profiles

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 684-689

  Rivera, Leonardo ^a   Frank Chen, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

^b The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Cost time profile; Investment; Lean manufacturing

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COST TIME INVESTMENT (CTI); COST TIME PROFILES; LEAN TOOLS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547808744     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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