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Original Articles

New integrated model to estimate the manufacturing cost and production system performance at the conceptual design stage of helicopter blade assembly

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Pages 7210-7228 | Received 03 Feb 2011, Accepted 24 Nov 2011, Published online: 11 Jan 2012

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