Strategies for product structure management at manufacturing firms

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 50-58

  Svensson, Daniel ^a   Malmqvist, Johan ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84911396824     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1471356     Document Type: Article

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