LDP lean document production-O.R.-enhanced productivity improvements for the printing industry

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Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-90

  Rai, Sudhendu ^a   Duke, Charles B ^b   Lowe, Vaughn ^c   Quan Trotter, Cyndi ^d   Scheermesser, Thomas ^e  

^a Xerox Innovation Group   (United States)

^b XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Xerox Services   (United States)

^d Xerox Services   (United States)

^e Xerox GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applications; Data analysis; Manufacturing; Performance productivity; Production scheduling; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649908879     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1080.0413     Document Type: Article

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