Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 24 Issue 4

A taxonomy of manufacturing strategies in manufacturing companies in Ireland

Noeleen Grant, Trevor Cadden, Ronan McIvor, Paul Humphreys

– The purpose of this paper is to replicate the taxonomic study of Miller and Roth and to validate its applicability in a small newly industrialised country.

Outsourcing, subcontracting-in and radical innovativeness: The moderating effect of manufacturing strategy

Adegoke Oke, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie

The authors aim to develop and test hypotheses that link outsourcing and subcontracting-in activities of small high-tech firms to their radical innovativeness. In addition, they…

Analysis of whether Lean is viewed as an ideology by British organizations

Sanjay Bhasin

The paper aims to reflect upon an in-depth investigation undertaken to decipher whether British organizations embraced Lean as an ideology. Various contributing factors such as…

Does the organizational culture act as a moderator in Indian enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects?: An empirical study

C. Annamalai, T. Ramayah

There is significant evidence of increasing global implementation failures in enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects; and, for this reason, critical success factors (CSF) on…

An alternative state-space representation for APVIOBPCS inventory systems

A.S. White, M. Censlive

Lalwani et al. devised a controllable state-space model for a general APVIOBPCS production and inventory system. However, their procedure did not cater for production delays of…

Analysis of restructuring a manufacturing system using graph theoretic model

Varinder Singh, P.M. Singru

– The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of restructuring in the manufacturing system at the conceptual stage using graph theoretic model.

Servitization of manufacture: Exploring the deployment and skills of people critical to the delivery of advanced services

Tim Baines, Howard Lightfoot, Palie Smart, Sarah Fletcher

This “research note” sets out to fuel the debate around the practices and technologies within operations that are critical to success with servitization. It presents a study of…