Validation of the complexity index method at three manufacturing companies

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing, ISAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-57

  Mattsson, Sandra ^a   Fasth, Asa ^a   Stahre, Johan ^a   Karlsson, Malin ^a   Dencker, Kerstin ^b   Gullander, Per ^b   Davidsson, Anna ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEREA IVF   (Sweden)

^c VOLVO CAR CORPORATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case study; Final assembly; Industrial competitiveness; Managing complexity; Perceived production complexity; Production planning; Validation

Indexed keywords

FINAL ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS; MANAGING COMPLEXITY; PERCEIVED PRODUCTION COMPLEXITY; PRODUCTION PLANNING; VALIDATION;

ASSEMBLY; COMPETITION; INDUSTRY; PRODUCTION CONTROL; TOOLS;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84890814977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISAM.2013.6643487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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