Manufacturing competitiveness assessment for business excellence

International Journal of Business Excellence

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-261

  Ateekh Ur Rehman, ^a   Subash Babu, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Benchmarking and ProModel 6.2; Reconfiguration of Manufacturing System; RMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915752006     PISSN: 17560047     EISSN: 17560055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2008.017882     Document Type: Article

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