International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 10 Issue 4

Operations Management in Professional Service Organisations: A Typology

Jean Harvey

Little attention has been given in the literature to operatingdecisions in professional service organisations. A better understandingof the power relationships within a…

An International Comparison of Factory Productivity

Roger W. Schmenner, Rho, Boo Ho

For the plant manager there are many suggested remedies forincreased plant productivity. Detailed survey data from 555 factories,principally in the US, Europe and Korea, are used…

Human Factors in the Implementation of Just‐In‐Time Production

Nick Oliver

Based on case studies collected at two UK factories, the issueswhich arise during JIT implementation are examined. These cases showthat the changes involved in a move towards JIT…

Vendor Requirements and Evaluation in a Just‐In‐Time Environment

T. Hillman Willis, C. Richard Huston

One of the essential tasks in implementing JIT is to integratesuppliers in the overall strategy. The process of vendor evaluation andselection is a time‐consuming and critical…

Controlling a Robotic Cell by Dynamic Rule Despatching – A Simulation Study

Shyanglin (Sam) Lee, Hsu‐Pin (Ben) Wang, Chao‐Hsien Chu

The main purpose of a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) issimultaneously to process parts with small to medium lot sizes and highvarieties. The rule despatching problem in a…

Identifying, Measuring and Analysing Multidimensional Attributes for Design and Redesign Consideration

Nesa L'abbe Wu

It is clearly not enough in product research to show that peopleprefer one product to another, but one must also show what attributes ofthe product cause them to prefer it…