Assessing the relative efficiency of energy use among similar manufacturing industries
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Assessing the relative efficiency of energy use among similar manufacturing industries Fernando Aguirre, J. Rene Villalobos , Patrick E. Phelan and Rafael Pacheco US Airways, AZ 85281, U.S.A. International Logistics and Productivity Improvement Laboratory, School of Computing, Informatics and Decisions Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-8809, U.S.A. School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6106, U.S.A. School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287, U.S.A. Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratories, The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 46556, U.S.A.
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