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The emerging focus on relationships as strategic assets has encouraged scholars to reexamine their potential for creating value for the firm and its shareholders. This article resolves some of the ambiguity regarding the way firms can understand and measure the value of a business relationship...
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Rehab Robotics Ltd and Staffordshire University have been at the leading edge of research and development in the field of rehabilitation robotics for the past 15 years. During this period they have developed the Handy 1 rehabilitation robot which enables people with severe disabilities to gain...
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One of the first steps in designing a flexible assembly system is the selection of an appropriate manipulator. There are a number of different manipulator configurations which can be chosen depending on a variety of factors such as the assembly workspace layout, product size, weight, and...
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This paper describes the benefits and requirements of robot tool changers and the selection criteria. In particular, expands on the design of the ATI quick‐change tool changer and provides examples of industrial applications.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a void in the literature on enterprise flexibility: The … Management Control Systems’ (MCS) role in the enterprise flexibility and stability discussion. MCS can be instrumental in … approach with a conceptual model to address enterprise flexibility and stability jointly; arguing that both should be part of …
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Purpose – Assesses whether the current pattern of relative wage rigidity and labour inertia in Europe is a problematic factor in the successful functioning of the European monetary union as viewed by many observers given the absence of interregional fiscal transfer payments....
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the aim of reducing set‐up times and increasing flexibility, quality and logistic performances, a new advanced …
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This paper investigates managerial practices that are conducive to the management of flexibility. Using data from … plants that place a high emphasis on flexibility. The results indicate that managers who pursue flexibility, emphatically …, customer delivery schedule, capacity adjustments, etc., that characterize manufacturing flexibility. Furthermore, workers are …
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involved in agreeing market parameters, technological flexibility needs, quality, cost and delivery performances. Abdicating …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve an integration of customer and supplier flexibility problem in a make … increased. Moreover, when both customers and suppliers provide flexibility strategies to the manufacturer simultaneously, total … realizing the relationship between the flexibility and profit. Moreover, there are other price-sensitivity functions for both …
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