Recognition of Underlying Dimentions of Production systems in Iran by using Discriminant analysis

Production firms select and design their proper production system by attention market and resources. Production systems or production process be introduced by series of variables. The one of their most famous is product-process matrix of Hayes and wheelwright. It intoduce production process by using product adult and process adult variables. In this research، after survey previous studies، be recognized new dimentions to intoduce production systems. These dimentions defind by structural and infra-structral manufacturing decisions. A Sample with size 245 be selected from production firms in iran. Multiple discriminant analysis used to analys data. Results show that could introduce Iranian production systems on “Technology-Source” and “Quality plans” dimentions. Finnaly، represent conclutions and recommends for future researches.