DMAICT: A road map to quick changeovers

International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-52

  Singh, Bikram Jit ^a   Khanduja, Dinesh ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

5 S; Changeover times; DMAICT; Externalisation; Job matrix; Light alloy foundry; Lot size; Re scheduling; Value stream mapping; Work sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956084736     PISSN: 14792494     EISSN: 14792753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCA.2010.034855     Document Type: Article

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