Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 17 Issue 8

Dispersed network manufacturing: adapting SMEs to compete on the global scale

Hamid Noori, W.B. Lee

To develop a conceptual framework for a new form of production system unique from many perspectives. The proposed system is based on the creation of a network of plants that are…

A model for managing the transition to a global engineering network spanning industrialized and emerging economies

Harshavardhan Karandikar, Srinivas Nidamarthi

Product development in most industries is often done today in a global engineering network (GEN). More recently, there has been a clear shift to using development resources from…

A web‐based logistics management system for agile supply demand network design

Petri Helo, You Xiao, Jianxin Roger Jiao

Online, on‐demand and real‐time availability of information to all members of a manufacturing system enables them to be agile and in the best position to react quickly…

Achieving agility in supply chain through simultaneous “design of” and “design for” supply chain

H. Sharifi, H.S. Ismail, I. Reid

The two main constituting elements of the supply chains are “product” and “supply chain operations”, which are highly inter‐related across more than one dimension. Many of the…

Evolution of a worldwide production network

Joachim Kuhn

The aim of this paper is the design of a strategic‐operational decision support to justify a specific network configuration. Based on cost/earnings equations regarding quality…

Managing product variety in multinational corporation supply chains: A simulation study

Mahendrawathi Er, Bart MacCarthy

For manufacturing enterprises, today's business environment is characterised by globally dispersed supply and manufacturing networks. In addition, the level of variety in products…

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Guest editorial

Rob Dekkers

International Conference on Manufacturing Automation National University of Singapore May 28-30, 2007