The planning and control of manufacturing SMEs

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 496-515

  Rahimifard, Shahin ^a   Newman, Stephen T ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed planning and control; heterarchical systems; interactive and reactive planning; team based manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149094703     PISSN: 13682148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijmtm.2001.001426     Document Type: Article

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