Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 29 Issue 8

The Product Service System Lean Design Methodology (PSSLDM): Integrating product and service components along the whole PSS lifecycle

Giuditta Pezzotta, Claudio Sassanelli, Fabiana Pirola, Roberto Sala, Monica Rossi, Sophia Fotia, Angelos Koutoupes, Sergio Terzi, Dimitris Mourtzis

Nowadays manufacturers companies are increasingly compelled to navigate towards servitization. Different methods and approaches were proposed in literature to support them to…

Developing a Decision Making Grid for determining proactive maintenance tactics: A case study in the steel industry

Arash Shahin, Nahid Aminsabouri, Kamran Kianfar

The purpose of this paper is to further develop the Decision Making Grid (DMG) proposed by Ashraf Labib (e.g. Labib, 1998, 2004; Fernandez et al., 2003; Aslam-Zainudeen and Labib…

Innovation capability configuration and its influence on the relationship between perceived innovation requirement and organizational performance: Evidence from IT manufacturing companies

Ming-Feng Su, Kuo-Chih Cheng, Shao-Hsi Chung, Der-Fa Chen

When the management of an information technology (IT) manufacturing firm perceives a need for innovation due to any threat in the external environment, it will be prompted to use…

Fabrication laboratories: The development of new business models with new digital technologies

Gilberto Santos, Federica Murmura, Laura Bravi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current state of fabrication laboratories (Fab Lab), an international network of digital laboratories, which provides new technological…

Lean production integration adaptable to dynamic conditions

Lina Stålberg, Anders Fundin

The purpose of this paper is to understand how a continuous improvement (CI) approach like lean production (LP) integration is affected by dynamic conditions and to propose how LP…

The mediating effect of lean management on the relationship between flexibility implementation and operational metrics in US automotive manufacturing plants

Raed EL-Khalil

The purpose of this paper is to identify the mediating effect of lean management (LM) dimensions on the relationship between flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) dimensions and…