Facilitating wasteful activities discovery in pure service environment through usage of process mining

International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 199-206

  Tomašević, Ivan ^a   Slović, Dragoslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Lean transformation; Process mining; Wastes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892378497     PISSN: 22172661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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