... systems Knowledge‐based systems Manufacturing Production scheduling Simulation Computer systems Interfaces Modelling IJOPM 12,11 A Knowledge-based Simulation System for Manufacturing Scheduling 4 Received August 1991 Revised February 1992 Shanthakumar Palaniswami and Lawrence Jenicke Central...

... 1991 Computer systems Modelling Systems analysis Computer simulation IJOPM 11,4 DSSL II: A Powerful Tool for Modelling and Analysing Complex Systems 44 Accepted September 1990 Kazem Chaharbaghi Middlesex Business School, London, UK Introduction One of the major questions that all...

... systems Small firms Computer systems Control systems Requirements for Smaller Companies in Integrated Manufacturing Integrated Manufacturing 57 L. Brennan Department of Industrial Engineering and Information Systems, Received June 1988 Revised January 1990 Northeastern University, Boston, USA F...

... Conference on Manufacturing Technology: Its Integration and Management, Sunderland, March, 1989. Technological change Computer systems Implementation Computer technology Manufacturing ...

... for the achievement of corporate objectives. Computer systems Flexibility Quality control Rationalization Production systems Electronics Design and of Production Implementation Systems for High Design and Implementation of Production Variety Electronics Assembly Systems 39 by D.J. Bennett and S.K. Rajput...

... to 34 per cent. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Computer modelling Computer systems Control systems Production planning Control Engineering Concepts as a Guide to Improved Production Control: A Make-for-Stock Case by David Price Management Centre, University of Bradford, UK The reduction...

... computer systems in support of operations management; companies are vulnerable to ad hoc explanations of benefits by vendors; users grab new ideas without understanding the ingredients for using them successfully; the educational system is deficient in matters directly relating to our survival...

... with such computer systems. Though the symptoms are somewhat different depending on whether we are concerned with large or small companies, the root cause is the same: a lack of any clear philosophy of what production management systems do and how they should be designed. In addition companies face a need...

...L. Brennan; W. Cahill; J. Sheil This paper describes a decision support system for once‐off facility acquisition decisions in a manufacturing environment. The system is based on the Kepner Tregoe Decision Analysis Technique and has been implemented in a high‐level language. Computer Systems...

... to operations managers with the microcomputer, so that the flexibility and simplicity of manual systems can be preserved. The idea is based on three contentions; that the data structure itself must represent the business operations; that the operations on the computer system must initiate basic manual practices...