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We conceptualize strategic decision-making processes within a manufacturing firm as streams of resources allocated to short-and long-term changes. The analogous ecological model, referred to as the Lotka-Volterra model, captures this dynamic tension ...

Safety of patients should be considered as the key element for production planning in pharmaceutical industries. Compliance with stringent regulations from regulatory agencies to guarantee quality and safety drugs, has been recognised by all ...

In recent years, globalization of markets and increased consumer sophistication have led to an increase in the variety of products that customers demand and a consequent increase in the number of variants of any given product line that a manufacturer ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new, empirically derived typology of plants in the international manufacturing network of multinational companies. This typology is based on the knowledge flows between the plants. In our research, network ...

Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) are perceived by companies to be important factors in the search for competitiveness. However research has shown that a large percentage of adoptions of AMT fail to achieve the expected benefits. One reason for ...

Information systems play a critical role in today's manufacturing business, and the need for enterprise-wide integrated information system has grown rapidly, as isolated information systems represent inadequate business solutions. Although there are ...

Objects that are made up of multiple materials and known as heterogeneous objects are now increasingly being used in engineering applications. The development of new fabrication methods like rapid prototyping (RP), calls for new techniques to ...

A production system must reflect a company's manufacturing strategy and the chosen competitive priorities. Tools to assess the congruence between the manufacturing strategy and the production system can hence support the companies' competitive position. ...

Over the last decade, outsourcing has proved to be a relevant strategic option for companies narrowing their operations to focus on core competencies. This paper analyses the process of outsourcing manufacturing to cost-efficient and innovative ...

Process choice, a major part of operations strategy, is a key decision that links operations to business strategy. Hayes and Wheelwright, among others, argue that the emphasis given to product customization and other competitive priorities should agree ...

Recent popular business literature has suggested that there is a significant trend in the United States for firms to decrease the size and increase the focus of manufacturing plants they operate, and that this leads to higher productivity. This paper ...

This paper proposes a relationship between manufacturing strategy and organizational culture, based on an examination of the research literature. Survey data were collected from 822 respondents in 41 plants in the transportation, electronics, and ...

In this exploratory, empirical study of modernizing durable goods plants, it was found that typical measures of flexibility e.g., number of unique parts and part families are independent. More importantly, plants and firms with greater strategic ...

<P>To help meet competitive realities operations managers need to know more about the strategic aspects of manufacturing flexibility. This paper takes steps toward meeting that need by critically reviewing the literature and establishing a research ...

<P>This paper presents a proactive strategic methodology for designing dynamic layouts for the expansion or decline phase of manufacturing systems. The methodology first estimates probable scenarios of the system requirements at its maturity level, ...

The characteristics of the technology and markets within an industry will affect the range of logistics systems observed in that industry. In some industries the range is wide, while in others all firms make the same logistics choices. This paper ...