Economic justification of flexible manufacturing systems using the leontief input-output model

Business & Economics

• Flexible Manufacturing Systems 73%
• Input-output Model 69%
• Performance Measures 52%
• Justification 47%
• Economics 31%
• Machining 30%
• Materials Handling 16%
• Job Shop 15%
• Scrap 14%
• Analytic Hierarchy Process 11%
• Linear Programming 11%
• Costs 9%
• Productivity 7%
• Methodology 6%
• Alternatives 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Flexible manufacturing systems 75%
• Machining centers 51%
• Economics 39%
• Materials handling 23%
• Analytic hierarchy process 22%
• Linear programming 18%
• Productivity 16%
• Costs 15%

Social Sciences

• input-output model 100%
• manufacturing 55%
• economics 26%
• performance 23%
• costs 11%
• time 10%
• productivity 8%
• programming 8%
• methodology 5%