Lean manufacturing for SMEs: Enabling rapid response to demand changes

Proceedings ICED 05, the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Achanga, Pius ^a   Shehab, Esam ^b   Roy, Rajkumar ^b   Nelder, Geoff ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Demand changes; Lean manufacturing; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862588769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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