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Handbook of Manufacturing and Supply Systems

Design

Handbook of Manufacturing and

Supply Systems Design

From strategy formulation to system operation

Bin Wu

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing

Systems Engineering

University of Missouri-Columbia

London and New York

First published 2002 by Taylor & Francis

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Wu, B. (Bin), 1957–

Handbook of manufacturing and supply systems design/Bin Wu.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-415-26902-4 (hc. :alk paper)

1. Production Engineering. 2. Production management. 3.

Manufacturing processes.. I. Title.

Title.

TS176.W8 2002

658.5–dc21

2001044280