Labour scheduling heuristic methods have been applied in service operating environments using both actual and synthetic … supplement for making their scheduling decisions. Also recommends that labour scheduling researchers use multiple levels of mean …

Describes labour stability and flexibility in Japanese versus Swedish manufacturing industries. Presents a theoretical … framework where a number of fields which other researchers have regarded as influencing labour stability and flexibility are … analysed. Also presents some of the findings of an empirical study of 17 Japanese and four Swedish companies measuring labour …

During the past several decades, the rapid expansion of service industry and the automation of manufacturing operations … have gradually changed the ratio between direct and indirect labour in favour of the latter and created the need for … updating indirect labour standards and their supporting data based on analysis of historical data; and setting up a point …

Purpose – The servitization of manufacturing is a diverse and complex field of research interest. The purpose of this … have performed a systematic review of the research literature associated with the servitization of manufacturing. This … management and engineering, which are contributing to knowledge production in the servitization of manufacturing. Knowledge …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of high-value manufacturing (HVM) concepts in Scottish …. Practical implications – Manufacturing efficiency has now become an order qualifier and competitive advantage should now be …

factors that account for acceptance of environmentally responsible manufacturing in the innovators and early adopters are …

‐sized job shop manufacturing company. Object‐oriented programming technology is used to provide flexible access to information …

of the latest plan was to increase product sophistication in ten selected industries, of which the electronics industry … partly frustrated in six plants in the electronics industry by limitations within senior manufacturing management. These were … in the relationships with managers in other functions. The need to restore quickly the levels of manufacturing yield and …

As we approach the twenty‐first century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming more and more difficult to … proactively. The emerging paradigm is agile manufacturing. Understanding and responding to changes, and taking advantage of … changes through strategic utilisation of managerial and manufacturing methods and tools, are some of the pivotal concepts of …