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An object‐oriented specification of a flexible manufacturing cell

Mak, K.L.; Lau, H.Y.K. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 5, pp. 534-548

The flexibility of an automated manufacturing system (AMS) is largely determined by the architecture of its supervisory software. The AMS supervisory software should be compatible enough to allow re‐configuration, maintenance, and upgrading to be done at a reasonable cost, so as to prolong the...

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Using Simulation to Solve Design and Operational Problems

Chaharbaghi, K. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 10 (1990) 9, pp. 89-105

One of the most challenging problems facing industrial engineers concerns the design and operational planning of today′s sophisticated production systems. The need for a detailed quantitative analysis is far more apparent than ever before. The application of discrete‐event simulation has...

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Thinking about Catering Systems

Jones, Peter; Huelin, Alan - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 10 (1990) 8, pp. 42-52

The operational analysis of catering operations is constrained by the lack of an internationally accepted taxonomy and the seemingly infinite variety of operations. The development of catering operations is described and a flow chart of ten distinct stages that constitute any such operation is...

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DSSL II: A Powerful Tool for Modelling and Analysing Complex Systems

Chaharbaghi, Kazem - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 11 (1991) 4, pp. 44-88

Sound design, planning and monitoring is critical to the operational and financial success of today′s sophisticated manufacturing and non‐manufacturing systems. Owing to their increasing complexity, discrete‐event simulation is becoming the most acceptable tool to aid planning the design...

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Application and assessment of IDEF3‐process flow description capture method

Plaia, Antonella; Carrie, Allan - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 15 (1995) 1, pp. 63-73

The IDEF techniques have been developed in projects sponsored by the US Air Force in order to describe, specify and model manufacturing systems in a structured graphical form. These techniques can be classified in two categories: the “modelling” and the “descriptive” varieties. Compares...

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The dynamics of consumer response A quest for the attractors of supply chain demand

Holmström, Jan; Hameri, Ari‐Pekka - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 19 (1999) 10, pp. 993-1010

The paper shows that it is possible to reconstruct the dynamical attractors of demand at different levels of the supply chain by using time series duplication and techniques for normalisation. The objective of reconstructing dynamical attractors is to learn more about the long‐term dynamical...

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Empirically testing the impact of manufacturing system complexity on performance

Guimaraes, Tor; Martensson, Nils; Stahre, Johan; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 19 (1999) 12, pp. 1254-1269

As the increase in manufacturing competitiveness forces organizations to use more sophisticated and complex software, system performance depends on clever systems design, efficient planning and scheduling of the related processes. For these advanced manufacturing systems the dependence on human...

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Simulating Availability in a Manufacturing Plant

Mohanty, R.P. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 9 (1989) 7, pp. 59-71

A simulation procedure is presented to estimate the throughput availability of a serially interconnected manufacturing system. The model presented in the article is able to analyse, predict and suggest ways for improving productivity. The model is applicable to systems with branching and...

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Fostering incremental and radical innovation through performance-based contracting in buyer-supplier relationships

Sumo, Regien; van der Valk, Wendy; van Weele, Arjan; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 36 (2016) 11, pp. 1482-1503

Purpose While anecdotal evidence suggests that performance-based contracts (PBCs) may foster innovation in buyer-supplier relationships, the understanding of the underlying mechanisms is limited to date. The purpose of this paper is to draw on transaction cost economics and agency theory to...

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Outsourcing decisions – the case of parallel production

Nordigården, Daniel; Rehme, Jakob; Brege, Staffan; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 34 (2014) 8, pp. 974-1002

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate an underexplored aspect of outsourcing involving a mixed strategy … in which parallel production is continued in-house at the same time as outsourcing occurs. Design … they outsource, the analysis was structured around two ends of a continuum: in-house dominance or outsourcing dominance …

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