Can lean manufacturing be applied to university laboratories?

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sreedharan, Shirish ^a,b   Liou, Frank ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UMK

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; EDUCATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

LEAN MANUFACTURING; RAPID MANUFACTURING LABORATORY; VISUAL MANAGEMENT;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85073127052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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