Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Volume 8 Issue 2
Table of contents
Supply chain operational performance roles
Christine HarlandTakes a holistic view of supply chain management tracing supply chains ultimately to end customers. Describes findings from empirical research in European automotive aftermarket…
Organizing for concurrent engineering: an integration mechanism framework
Victor Paashuis, Harry BoerLooks into the use of concurrent engineering (CE) in new product development (NPD) processes. To this end presents an NPD strategy framework, which is derived from an operations…
Training and empowerment improve performance: a case study
Geoff Sykes, Mike Simpson, Eric ShipleyPresents a case study, based on semi‐structured interviews and shopfloor observations, of an optical fibre manufacturer in the North of England which has recently been taken over…
Performance prediction and diagnosis in two production departments
Paul P.M. Stoop, J. Will M. BertrandIn complex, job‐shop‐like production departments it is usually very difficult to predict the near‐future logistic performance as well as to explain or diagnose objectively why and…
Continuous improvement and kaizen: standardization and organizational designs
Anders BergerProposes to delineate a set of core principles from the Japanese kaizen concept and illustrate the contingent nature of the design and organization of continuous improvement (CI…