Select better suppliers based on manufacturing precision for processes with multivariate data

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2961-2974

  Yen, C H ^a   Pearn, W L ^b  

^a DIWAN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Critical value; Multiple quality characteristics; Process capability

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VALUE; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; MANUFACTURING PRECISION; MANUFACTURING SPECIFICATION; MULTIPLE CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIPLE QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIVARIATE DATA; PROCESS CAPABILITIES; PROCESS CAPABILITY INDICES; PROCESS REPRODUCTION CAPABILITY; QUALITY ENGINEERING; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; SUPPLIER SELECTION; TESTING PROCESS; UNIVARIATE;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 70449629223     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701796985     Document Type: Article

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