A morphology proposal in commercial-off-the-shelf reconfigurable machine tools

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4440-4455

  Mpofu, Khumbulani ^a   Tlale, Nkgatho ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

configuration; machine morphology; reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; MACHINE TOOLS; MANUFACTURE;

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF; CONFIGURATION; GLOBAL MANUFACTURING; LIFE SPAN; PART FAMILY; RECONFIGURABLE MACHINE TOOL; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; RECONFIGURATION;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84904396991     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2013.851423     Document Type: Article

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