International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 4 Issue 1

The Toyota Production System — Lessons for American Management

C. Carl Pegels

A management system which has been used in Japan's Toyota Motor Company for many years is described. The system is applicable to the assembled goods industry and is widely used in…

NC Applications—its Present and Future in Singapore's Industries

Khong Heng Poh

The numerically controlled machine tool has become a very topical subject due to the current emphasis on increasing productivity and upgrading of manufacturing industry. This…

Setting Aggregate Inventory Levels: An Operations Management Decision?

Norman Gaither, Donald R. Fraser

Five hundred financial executives from North American companies were surveyed by means of a mailed questionnaire to gain a view from outside the operations functions of the basis…

Planning the Introduction of Group Technology

B.G. Dale, J.L. Burbidge, M.J. Cottam

A large multi‐national Engineering company, with production facilities in the UK, recently undertook a study into the possibility of using Group Technology in a proposed “focused…

An Assessment of Some Approaches to Hierarchical Production Planning

R.P. Mohanty, M.V.R. Krishnaswamy

Some hierarchical approaches for production planning in a batch type manufacturing environment are described. In a single stage production system, three aggregation levels exist…

Co‐ordinated Versus Independent Replenishment Inventory Control

Radhakrishnan Jayaraman, Mario T. Tabucanon

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the usefulness of a co‐ordinated control inventory model, when it is applied to a practical situation. A comparison is made between…

Survey Report The Responsibilities and Activities of UK Production Managers

Ray Wild

A small and simple questionnaire survey of UK production managers was undertaken in 1983. The objective was to collect information to help in curriculum design. The summary…