... original context, for instance, to guide the design of product offerings and delivery channels in service businesses (Huete and Roth, 1988 ; Boyer et al., 2002). Operations strategy Process design Contingency theory Operations management Process planning © Emerald Group...

... Limited 2009 Strategic manufacturing Process planning Manufacturing industries Australia For well over three decades, the manufacturing strategy (MS) concept has been studied from predominantly normative perspectives. This longstanding scholarly tradition has its roots in the early...

... Process planning Performance measures Flexibility in operations has long been recognized as a key competitive capability for manufacturing organizations and much has been written about the forms of flexibility required to satisfy different customer needs. Comprehensive literature surveys...

... be contacted at: lzomerdijk@london.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Service operations Process planning Customer relations Service delivery systems Case studies Compared to delivering goods, one of the most distinguishing features of delivering services is the amount...

... Organizational change Process planning Change management Emergent strategy If there is one thing that organization theorists and practitioners agree upon, it is that change which is more frequent, of a greater magnitude and much less predictable than ever before (Carnall, 2003 ; Cummings and Worley...

... and Modular Bills identification were worked out at the same time and involved engineering, sales and production planning personnel. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Product variants Process planning Research Product management Tendencies in today's competitive environment can...

... and modernization of equipment. All three facilities could produce any of the products as needed. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Operations strategy Product placement Process planning Manufacturing strategy Organizational behaviour As the twenty‐first century begins, competition in the global...

...) constructively suggests that the way forward is to be guided by Habermas’s (1974) key principles. These principles involve three stages: © MCB UP Limited 2002 Process planning Hospitals Computer‐integrated manufacturing Information systems Action research During the 1980s and 1990s...

... Process planning Manufacturing strategy Low cost customized products are a new phenomenon in a customer‐centered marketplace. Mass customization (Davis, 1987; Pine, 1993; Pine et al., 1995) heralds the coming age of consumer choice with quick response on customized products from...

... and valuable ingredients. 5 This factory has to produce a combination of make‐to‐order and make‐to‐stock. 6 Schedules can be disrupted by machine breakdowns, illness or interruptions in the supply of materials. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Food industry Process planning Production...

...Chao‐Hsien Chu; Hsu‐Pin Wang During recent decades, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) from computer science, psychology and linguistics has created a great impact on the design and implementation of process planning systems. This article provides a review of the state‐of‐the‐art AI...

... of parts design, process planning, jigs and fixtures design, and the introduction of composite set-ups and tool pre-setting. Mitrofanov was one of the earliest exponents of the composite tool set-up configuration to cater for a family of similar parts[7]. The main drawback is reduced flexibility in job...