Modeling process flow using diagrams

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-349

  Kemper, Benjamin ^a   De Mast, Jeroen ^a   Mandjes, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flowchart; Operations research; Process improvement; Rational reconstruction; Value stream map

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; FLOW DIAGRAM; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; GENERIC PROCESS; HEALTHCARE PROCESS; IN-PROCESS; MODELING PROCESS; PROCESS FLOWS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; RATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; VALUE STREAMS;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FLOWCHARTING; HYDRAULICS; ONTOLOGY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; REPAIR; VALUE ENGINEERING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 77953347721     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.1061     Document Type: Article

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