The development of green environment through lean implementation in a garment industry

Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 104-111

  Marudhamuthu, Ravikumar ^a   Krishnaswamy, Marimuthu ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Affiliated to Anna University   (India)

Author keywords

Garment industries; Green environment; Lean; Value stream mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859019975     PISSN: 1816949X     EISSN: 18187803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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