A lean manufacturing educational model: Flexible low-cost linking of manufacturing planning to customer requirements

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 8775-8786

  Attia, Farouk ^a   Seaker, Robert ^a   Rathod, Jignesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL MARKETS; LEAN MANUFACTURING MODEL (LMM); MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; PRODUCT DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 5444226647     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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