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The same old methodologies? Perspectives on OM research in the post‐lean age

MacCarthy, Bart L.; Lewis, Michael; Voss, Chris; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 33 (2013) 7, pp. 934-956

age? This paper reflects on and develops the principal themes discussed in the “OM Methodology” Special Session at the … 2011 EurOMA Conference in Cambridge, UK. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The emerging …

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A methodology for achieving agility in manufacturing organisations

Zhang, Z.; Sharifi, H. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 4, pp. 496-513

agile manufacturing. This paper discusses these concepts and presents a methodology to assist manufacturing companies to … achieve agility. Industrial questionnaire surveys and case studies are carried out to support and validate the methodology …. Results and conclusions derived from the surveys and case studies in support of the methodology are reported. …

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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

‐oriented methodology to address the task of AMS supervisory software development. The effectiveness of the methodology is examined in an …

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Organisation design in operations management

Ruffini, Frans A.J.; Boer, Harry; van Riemsdijk, Maarten J. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 7, pp. 860-879

The organisational design of production systems is thought to be one of the key determinants of their performance. Therefore, in order to enable them to contribute effectively to the successful creation of products and services, OM practitioners need up‐to‐date, comprehensive and...

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Performance measurement system design: developing and testing a process‐based approach

Neely, Andy; Mills, John; Platts, Ken; Richards, Huw; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 20 (2000) 10, pp. 1119-1145

Describes the development and testing of a structured methodology for the design of performance measurement systems …

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A holon‐based process modeling methodology

Presley, Adrien R.; Liles, Donald H. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 5/6, pp. 565-581

Process models are a valuable tool in the design and configuration of enterprises. However, current modeling techniques have shortcomings that prevent them from fully supporting the analysis required to design an enterprise. This is especially true when considering the needs of modeling highly...

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A SUPER methodology for business process improvement ‐ An industrial case study in Hong Kong/China

Lee, K.T.; Chuah, K.B. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 5/6, pp. 687-706

paper describes the methodology, SUPER, and its use in a real case study. …

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Agile manufacturing in practice ‐ Application of a methodology

Sharifi, H.; Zhang, Z. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 5/6, pp. 772-794

changes. Based on this concept, a methodology for achieving agility in manufacturing organisations is developed. The … methodology is applied in two manufacturing companies and data collected from the applications are used to validate the … methodology. This paper provides a brief summary of the methodology and details its implementation and validation in the two case …

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Improving the manufacturing process quality using design of experiments: a case study

Antony, Jiju - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 5/6, pp. 812-822

presents a case study for optimising the product life using DoE methodology. A significant improvement in the product life was …

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An information‐theoretic methodology for measuring the operational complexity of supplier‐customer systems

Sivadasan, S.; Efstathiou, J.; Frizelle, G.; Shirazi, R.; … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 22 (2002) 1, pp. 80-102

understanding, a novel information‐theoretic entropy‐based methodology for measuring and analysing the operational complexity of … developments of the methodology. The methodology can quantitatively detect and prioritise operational complexity hotspots. At the …. This entropy‐based methodology provides a tool for identifying and measuring four classes of operational complexity …

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