Evaluation of reconfigured manufacturing systems: An AHP framework

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 228-246

  Rehman, Ateekh Ur ^a   Babu, A Subash ^b  

^a S P Jain Institute of Management and Research   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytic hierarchy process; Reconfigurable manufacturing system; RMS; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 60549109093     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2009.023189     Document Type: Article

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