The complementary effect of manufacturing process modularity and is flexibility on agility in manufacturing

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2922-2930

  Lin, Shuai Fu ^a   Bush, Ashley A ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agility; IS flexibility; Modularity

Indexed keywords

AGILITY; CAN DESIGN; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; IS FLEXIBILITY; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS DESIGN; MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN; MODULAR SYSTEM; MODULARITY; MODULARIZED STRUCTURE; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRY; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870316463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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