Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 102 Issue 4

Optimization of replacement stocks using a maintenance programme derived from reliability studies of production systems

José Ma Castán Farrero, Laura Guitart Tarrés, Catalina Bolancé Losilla

This paper is the outcome of a study carried out in a nine‐cell flexible manufacturing unit which produces components for Diesel engine injection pumps. The study involved the…

Impact of JIT on inventory to sales ratios

Timothy B. Biggart, Vidyaranya B. Gargeya

Just‐In‐Time (JIT) production has received a great deal of attention, worldwide, since its introduction in Japan a few decades ago. It has been well documented that some of the…

Managing the development of a mainframe‐based inquiry system for the Internet

Matthew Fleming, Gordon Couturier

Although the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) have existed for several years, it has only been in the past year or two that high‐powered software and infrastructure have been…

E‐business success at Intel: an organization ecology and resource dependence perspective

Dien D. Phan

Electronic business (e‐business) today plays a major role in the world economic growth, thanks to the rapid advance in information technology. Recent estimates from Forester…

Electronic new product development –‐ a conceptual framework

Jie Yang, Liming Yu

Today’s knowledge economy era is characterized by short product life‐cycles, dynamic customer requirements and complex business processes, knowledge management (KM) is becoming…

Relationships of TQM philosophy, methods and performance: a survey in Taiwan

Fenghueih Huarng, Yao‐Tzung Chen

Total quality management (TQM) has been a widely applied process for improving competitiveness around the world. The implementation of TQM usually consists of both TQM philosophy…