Strengthening the competitiveness and sustainability of a semiconductor manufacturer with cloud manufacturing

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 251-266

  Chen, Toly ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Cloud manufacturing; Competitiveness; Semiconductor; Sustainability; Wafer fabrication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION;

EID: 84894037214     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6010251     Document Type: Article

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