Measurement of needed reconfiguration level for manufacturing firms

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 78-92

  Garbie, Ibrahim H ^a   Parsaei, Hamid R ^b   Leep, Herman R ^c  

^a HELWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing systems; Agility measurement; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010298266     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2008.0196     Document Type: Article

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