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Collaborative platforms for innovation in advanced materials
Kreiling, Laura; Robinson, Douglas K. R.; Winickoff, … - 2020
Advanced materials hold significant potential to create better products and production processes. Yet realising their … promise remains challenging: historically it has taken 15 to 20 years from discovery to deployment of new materials in … collaborative platforms for advanced materials such as terms of funding, access, and IP policy and explores how they can create …
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Assessing information quality in manufacturing planning and control processes
Gustavsson, Mattias; Wänström, Carl - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 26 (2009) 4, pp. 325-340
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define dimensions for describing information quality deficiencies and to describe forecast and customer order information quality deficiencies on various manufacturing planning and control levels. Design/methodology/approach – The purpose is...
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Exploratory case studies on manufacturing decision areas in the job production system
Choudhari, Sanjay C.; Adil, Gajendra K.; Ananthakumar, Usha - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 32 (2012) 11, pp. 1337-1361
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the configuration of a job production system with reference to manufacturing decision areas. The aim is to identify the process specific decisions for job shop and the non‐process specific decisions that are influenced by other contextual...
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In‐transit distribution strategy: solution for European factory competitiveness?
Hilletofth, Per; Hilmola, Olli‐Pekka; Claesson, Frida - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 111 (2011) 1, pp. 20-40
Purpose – Research work describes in‐transit distribution strategy by determining and analyzing key principles of it as well as by illustrating its application in practice. Emphasis on in‐transit distribution strategy is to turn transportation pipeline as a mobile inventory holding place,...
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Understanding enterprise system customization: an exploration of implementation realities and the key influence factors
Haines, M.N. - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 17 (2009) 7
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Steadily breaking through barriers: how Milliken improves performance and innovation
In: Human Resource Management International Digest 19 (2011) 6
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Developing an input-output activity matrix (IOAM) for environmental and economic analysis of manufacturing systems and logistics chains
Bonney, Maurice; Jaber, Mohamad Y. - In: International journal of production economics 143 (2013) 2, pp. 589-597
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Evaluation of the logistic model of the reconfigurable manufacturing system based on generalised stochastic Petri nets
Li, G. Q.; Mitrouchev, P.; Wang, Y.; Brissaud, D.; Lu, L. X. - In: International journal of production research 50 (2012) 22, pp. 6249-6258
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Optimisation of sequencing and scheduling in hybrid flow shop environment using heuristic approach
Sridhar, S.; Prabaharan, T.; Saravanan, M. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2010) 4, pp. 331-351
This paper considers the hybrid flow shop scheduling problem. Most real world scheduling problems are NP-hard in nature. The main purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to the objective version of the well known hybrid flow shop problem. The processing of each job on each machine is...
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Artificial intelligence in materials handling : how machine learning tools boost warehouse safety, productivity and cost-effectiveness
Downie, Brien; Gyöngyösi, Marc; Kuehl, Chris - In: Journal of supply chain management, logistics and … 4 (2021) 1, pp. 6-16
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