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Production Management Techniques in UK Manufacturing Industry: Usage and Barriers to Acceptance
John S. Oakland, Amrik SohalThe work described in this paper is part of a large study of the barriers to acceptance of production management techniques in UK manufacturing industry. The first part of this…
An Agenda For Research on the Flexibility of Manufacturing Processes
Donald GerwinThis paper outlines an agenda for conducting rigorous research into the flexibility of manufacturing processes. Its underlying premise is that current efforts are being impeded by…
Aggregate Planning in UK Manufacturing Companies
Vic GilgeousAggregate planning approaches as presented in the literature are rarely used in practice. The objective of this research is to survey the aggregate planning practice of…
AGV Despatching in a Flexible Manufacturing System
T.C.E. ChengAn important issue in the design of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is the operational control of the materials handling subsystem, through which reparts are conveyed from…
Measuring Facility Layout Complexity
P.H. Waghodekar, S. SahuA new method for the measurement of the complexity of a facility layout problem is described which can be viewed as the degree of ease (unease) with which a given number of…
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- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen