Agile Manufacturing and Management of Variability

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 375-388

  Tan, B ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; Cycle time; Stochastic models of manufacturing systems; Variability of the output

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941285845     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3995.1998.tb00121.x     Document Type: Article

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