Trends in agility for rapid product development and manufacturing – A review

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-146

  Onuh, Spencer ^a   Popov, Ivan ^a   Bennett, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agile Manufacturing; AM; Mass Customisation; MC; Rapid Manufacturing; Rapid Prototyping; RM; RP

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649085087     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijasm.2007.015784     Document Type: Review

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