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Quality is increasingly becoming the key determinant of demand for goods and services. Managerial philosophy and perceptions shape the overall corporate attitude towards quality and define the parameters for its role as a determinant of competitiveness and performance. Quality of services is...
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Studies the process of implementing industrial robots in Spanish industry. Most of the firms surveyed already had experience of automation and used the first robot to gain experience of this new technology. The training and integration of staff in the project, the firm′s technology level and...
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Discusses implementation of commonly used change strategies. Puts the emphasis on the problems of utilizing existing … experience in the implementation of a change strategy, and on the problems of transferring experience from one change effort to … focuses on considerations made within and between three generic components affecting the implementation of change efforts …
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implementation of JIT, or to achieve further improvement if a commitment has already been made to JIT implementation. Specifically … expanded two‐stage process for JIT implementation.  …
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Presents an alternative framework to resolve the initial problems encountered in implementing a cellular manufacturing (CM) project. There are not a large number of case studies available detailing the same. The main thrust is on identifying some of the problems which arose in implementing a CM...
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changes occurred in the work environment, generally positive changes in attitudes occurred during the implementation period …
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Presents the findings of a study which investigated the adoption of lean production methods in Australian manufacturing industry. Data were gathered through a telephone survey from 51 companies representing a range of industry sectors. The study found that a large majority of the companies were...
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Compares the research done in the area of JIT implementation in the past decade, identifies critical JIT elements, and … implementation articles published in both professional journals and proceedings. Initial screening process led to the identification … of 105 JIT implementation research articles published since 1980. Each of these 105 articles was reviewed to identify 28 …
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, philosophical, and implementation perspectives. Theorizes a synergistic interaction between JIT and TQM when they are viewed as an …
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strategy and the process of strategy development and implementation. Although many of the propositions have been well received …
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