Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 16 Issue 8

Influence of flexibilities on manufacturing cells for faster delivery using simulation

Hulya Julie Yazici

The effects of cellular manufacturing (CM) on increased delivery speed and resource utilization along with its interaction with volume, mix, routing, and labor flexibilities are…

Outsourcing strategies for radical innovations: does industry clockspeed make a difference?

Robert K. Perrons, Ken Platts

To determine whether or not clockspeed is an important variable in outsourcing strategies throughout the development of radical innovations.

Intelligent real time control of disturbances in manufacturing systems

A.W. Labib, M.N. Yuniarto

This paper aims to address the problem of real‐time control and monitoring of a failure prone manufacturing system in an intelligent and optimum way. This paper also aims to…

Applying a strategic planning process to several supply chain partners

Ian Sadler, Richard Gough

The ability of a team from a manufacturer and its partners to formulate strategic plans for supply chains is investigated. The research aims to improve the process of formulate…

Data model design for manufacturing execution system

Bing‐hai Zhou, Shi‐jin Wang, Li‐feng Xi

Since the data model plays an important role in designing manufacturing execution system (MES) database, this paper seeks to provide a generic and adaptable data model for MES…

Operations management and advanced manufacturing technologies in SMEs: A contingency approach

Louis Raymond

Increased requirements for competitiveness, innovation, quality, flexibility and information processing capability has led a number of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to…

Quick value‐setting algorithms for the longest path problem of job‐shop scheduling

Shiu Hong Choi, Feng Yu Yang

The disjunctive graph is a network representation of the job‐shop scheduling problem, while the longest path problem (LPP) is one of the most important subjects in this research…