An assembly line design and construction for a small manufacturing company

Assembly Automation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-172

  Yaman, Ramazan ^a  

^a BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assembly; Design; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURE;

ASSEMBLY LINE; MANUFACTURING COMPANY;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 42549133175     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150810863743     Document Type: Article

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