Rapid changeover – a pre‐requisite for responsive manufacture

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Agile and resilient approaches to supply chain management: influence on performance and competitiveness

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Non-valued Changeover Time Measures for Hiddxen Time Loss in Automotive Mechanical Component Production

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Proposta de um método de gestão econômica para os sistemas produtivos tendo como base teórica os pressupostos que sustentam a contabilidade de ganhos da teoria das restrições e os princípios da produção enxuta

“…Para Edwards (1996), Jina, Bhattacharya e Walton (1997) e Mileham et al (1999), a melhoria da performance das empresas é mais acentuada quando a produção enxuta é aplicada às situações de alta variedade e de baixo volume, o que deve ser feito por meio do projeto de produtos voltados à produção e à logística, bem como da implantação dos princípios enxutos e da integração da cadeia produtiva.…”