Part I – Towards an OPIM system: manufacturing SME organisation for the future

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-150

  Putnik, Goran D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

factory models flow through product; global manufacturing; manufacturing SME; One Product Integrated Manufacturing (OPIM); OPIM institutionalisation; organisation; telematics technologies; virtual enterprise; virtual enterprise institutionalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888778029     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2002.002542     Document Type: Article

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