was implemented in a manufacturing setting. Sensitivity analysis was carried out to test the robustness of the results …

Manufacturing companies are under pressure to minimize production costs. Reducing downtime and minimizing maintenance …

Benchmarking to improve strategic manufacturing management seems to be a logical extension to benchmarking to improve … benchmark the strategic manufacturing management process. The experiences of a consortium of on‐competing firms struggling with … inappropriate choices of key manufacturing performance indicators were made by 50 per cent of the business units studied and this is …

Presents eight guidelines to help managers better utilize their flexible manufacturing technology (FMT). Suggests …

students regarding their perceptions of the POM discipline and careers in manufacturing. While a number of suspicions are …

Proposes that the role of traceability in manufacturing systems is to enable the history of events to be followed and …), analyse system performance (performance tracing) and support decision making (goal tracing). Manufacturing systems are … traceability at each manufacturing system level. The traceabilities approach provides a structured, holistic way of thinking about …

Introduces the concept of a manufacturing strategy based on a service orientation. Traditional manufacturing strategies …

Discusses the advent of simultaneous engineering as the new manufacturing paradigm, and speculates about the … organizational consequences of this new manufacturing method. To decrease the time from product inspection through prototype … new manufacturing mode has also redefined the relationship between the companies and their vendors. Because of greater …