A novel approach for measuring agility in manufacturing firms

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-103

  Garbie, Ibrahim H ^a   Parsaei, Hamid R ^b   Leep, Herman R ^c  

^a Engineering Department   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing systems; Agility measurement; AMS; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

AGILITY MEASUREMENTS; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MANUFACTURING STRATEGY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 52349093891     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.020334     Document Type: Article

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