International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 5 Issue 3

FMS Management — The Scope for Further Research

Malcolm E. Hill

There are some 30 Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) currently being installed and assimilated in Britain. A pilot study involving Anderson‐Strathclyde plc, a precision…

The Management of Manufacturing Operations: An Appraisal of Recent Developments

Sumer C. Aggarwal, Sudhir Aggarwal

A detailed analysis of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Kanban, optimised Production Technology (OPT) and Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), including the applied…

Computerised Work Scheduling in a Not‐for‐Profit Service Organisation: A Hospital Case Study

Mike Wright, David Rhodes

ntroducing computerised working scheduling systems into a “not‐for‐ation, addressed by means of a case study based in a high security mental rise to four recommendations: that…

Policy Implications for Measuring the Relative Efficiency of a Resource Requirements Flan

John G. Wacker

on model is developed which recognises behavioural restrictions on the hased resource schedule, the model's characteristics being sufficiently it can be applied to both service…