Design for complexity: A global perspective through industrial enterprises analyst and designer

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-307

  Garbie, Ibrahim H ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Analysis of industrial enterprises; Complexity analysis; Design for complexity

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY; DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING; DESIGN FOR QUALITIES; GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; OPERATING COMPLEXITY;

DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURABILITY;

EID: 84861904952     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2012.047099     Document Type: Article

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