Lucherini, Franco; Rapaccini, Mario - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 10 (2017) 5, pp. 919-945
Purpose: This paper describes the use of simulation and case-study research to assess flexibility gains induced by the …, Just-in-Time Delivery by Suppliers, and Single Minute Exchange of Dies. Findings: To investigate the flexibility … performed our analysis. We quantify the flexibility of different configurations according to the new 5-step approach in order to …