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Design for manufacturability and time‐to‐market: Part 2: some empirical findings
Mohamed A. YoussefExamines the impact of the intensity level of design formanufacturability (DFM) on the time‐to‐market. Hypothesizes thatcompanies which use the DFM technology strategically are…
An assessment of operations in US service firms
Gustavo A. Vargas, Ghasem H. ManoochehriThe service sector of the American economy is expanding veryrapidly at a greater than 6 per cent annual growth rate during the1984‐88 period. The extraordinary growth of the…
A comparative analysis and review of JIT “implementation” research
Narender K. Ramarapu, Satish Mehra, Mark N. FrolickCompares the research done in the area of JIT implementation in thepast decade, identifies critical JIT elements, and groups the elementsinto broader factors. An extensive…
Decision support models for the location of firms in industrial sites
Masood A. Badri, Donald L. Davis, Donna DavisInvestigates the industrial location decision behaviour of firms.The behaviour was determined by an examination of the firms′ attitudesmeasured on “location variables”. Firms…
Application and assessment of IDEF3‐process flow description capture method
Antonella Plaia, Allan CarrieThe IDEF techniques have been developed in projects sponsored bythe US Air Force in order to describe, specify and model manufacturingsystems in a structured graphical form. These…
The effect of demand characteristics on labour scheduling methods
Michael J. Brusco, T. Reid JohnsLabour scheduling heuristic methods have been applied in serviceoperating environments using both actual and synthetic demand patterns.Two important characteristics of these…
A heuristic scheduling algorithm for improving the duration and net present value of a project
Gündüz Ulusoy, Linet ÖzdamarProposes a heuristic iterative scheduling algorithm for theresource constrained project scheduling problem. Considers a generalmodel where activities are represented by multiple…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen