The impact of product configurators on lead times in engineering-oriented companies

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-206

  Haug, Anders ^a   Hvam, Lars ^b   Mortensen, Niels Henrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Configurator; Lead Times; Process Reengineering; Product Configuration; Sales Configuration

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONFIGURATOR; ENGINEERING-ORIENTED; LEAD TIME REDUCTION; LEAD TIMES; LEADTIME; PROCESS REENGINEERING; PRODUCT CONFIGURATION; PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 79956113444     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: 14691760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0890060410000636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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