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Action research: a new paradigm for research in production and operations management
Roy WestbrookThe continuing debate on production and operations management (POM)research has led to a new emphasis on empirical methods. Claims that,while surveys and case research are…
The role of management accounting in the development of a manufacturing strategy
Timothy D. Fry, Daniel C. Steele, Brooke A. SaladinA well developed manufacturing strategy is becoming increasinglyimportant to many manufacturing organizations. A major feature of such astrategy is the definition of a…
The six Ps of manufacturing strategy
G. Keong Leong, Peter T. WardThe operating definition of manufacturing strategy in publishedresearch has often been too restrictive to accommodate the entire gamutof approaches used in practice. In…
Business process re‐engineering: lessons from operations management
Colin Armistead, Alan Harrison, Philip RowlandsIt has become clear that business process re‐engineering (BPR)draws on the knowledge and skills from many of the traditionalmanagement disciplines. The adoption of the process…
Henry Ford′s just‐in‐time system
James M. WilsonComparisons of western manufacturing management with Japanesemethods have highlighted a number of differences between them. But acomparison of earlier western ideas about…
Analysis of tooling problems in discrete manufacturing industry
Terrence Perera, Matthew ShafaghiPresents the results of a survey into the nature and scale of toolmanagement problems within the UK manufacturing industry and outlinesstrategies to improve the management and…
A comparative examination of selected cellular manufacturing clustering algorithms
Chun‐Hung Cheng, Ashok Kumar, Jaideep MotwaniCellular manufacturing is a layout approach to increaseproductivity in manufacturing. The basic concept of cellularmanufacturing is to exploit the similarity between parts…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen