Determining job complexity in an engineer to order environment for due date estimation using a proposed framework

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 5728-5740

  Grabenstetter, Douglas H ^a   Usher, John M ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

due dates; engineer to order; job complexity

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; DUE DATES; ENGINEER TO ORDERS; ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT; ENGINEERING PROCESS; FLOW TIME PREDICTIONS; JOB COMPLEXITY; OPERATING STRATEGY;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84885849174     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2013.787169     Document Type: Article

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