Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Volume 3 Issue 2
Table of contents
Manufacturing Strategy Formulation and Implementation: The Education and Training Role
Roy Staughton, Nick Kinnie, Rebecca Smith, Huw DaviesManufacturing strategy needs to be appropriate to the needs of theorganization acceptable to all employees, and capable of subsequentrenewal by management. To achieve this…
Make or Buy: The Strategic Product Design Choice
Johann C.K.H. Riedel, Jacqueline Lewis, Kulwant PawarThe research reported here derives from a recently completedquestionnaire survey of the UK mechanical engineering industry and aseries of follow‐up case studies. The case studies…
How to Perform Simultaneous Process Engineering
Michael SweeneyThe use of innovation to achieve a competitive advantage is notnew. What is of current interest is how some manufacturing organizationshave used the speed of product innovation to…
Gap Analysis Approach to the Effective Implementation of Master Production Scheduling Systems
Ashok Kochhar, Ashok SuriDevelops and describes a knowledge‐based systems approach which maybe used to highlight the disparity between the essential and/ordesirable prerequisites for the implementation of…
Some Observations of Operation and Maintenance in Two Swedish Firms
Maria ThilanderIn pace with an increasing awareness of the negative effects, bothin terms of productivity and social aspects, of taking the division ofwork and specialization too far, the…
Machine Tool Selection in Computer Aided Process Planning Systems
Nabil Gindy, Tsvetan RatchevReports on ongoing research in developing generative processplanning systems. Presents a feature‐based model for describingcomponent geometry and its structural aspects…