Designing manufacturing flexibility in dynamic production contexts

Design of Flexible Production Systems: Methodologies and Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-18

  Terkaj, Walter ^a   Tolio, Tullio ^a   Valente, Anna ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focused Flexibility Manufacturing Systems FFMS; Manufacturing system design activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949810686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85414-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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