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A study of operations management constructs and their relationships
Keah Choon Tan, Joel D. WisnerThis paper describes an exploratory research effort to analyze and classify emerging operations management practices in US manufacturing. Using a survey of senior materials and…
Managing the design‐manufacturing interface
Anneke Vandevelde, Roland Van DierdonckThis paper describes the major barriers across the design‐manufacturing interface and examines ways to overcome them to achieve a smooth production start‐up. An integration model…
Lean manufacturing: a perspective of lean suppliers
Yen Chun WuThe main thrust of this paper empirically examines the connection between lean production and various aspects of the logistics system. This paper performs a comparison analysis to…
Lean manufacturing in temperature dependent processes with interruptions
W.L. Lee, J.M. AllwoodA particular difficulty arises when lean manufacturing principles are applied to temperature dependent processes. Specifically, when an interruption occurs, lean manufacturing…
Service operations strategy, flexibility and performance in engineering consulting firms
Daniel Arias ArandaIn this paper, the relationship between operations strategy and performance through flexibility as a moderating variable is analysed within the service setting of engineering…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen