... between schedulers and manufacturing operators, including behavioural and organizational factors. Many organizations employ a hierarchical production planning paradigm (Bitran et al., 1982). Coordination between departments is done on the aggregate level using, e.g. MRP‐II, and individual...

... Economic sustainability Competitive advantage Personal health Operations management Production planning Many companies rely on humans. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in human issues in operations management (OM) (Boudreau et al., 2003 ; Cook et al...

... (Shaftel and Thompson, 1977 ; Rutenberg and Shaftel, 1971 ; Evans, 1970), group technology in product design was proposed for streamlining product design, production planning and manufacturing operations (Hyer and Wemmerlov, 1984 ; Holler, 1980 ; Rajagopalan and Batra, 1975). Group technology...

..., Surrey, UK. I believe that he realizes what a daring challenge he faces in creating a special issue focused on modularity. Martin K. Starr can be contacted at: mstarr@rollins.edu; starr@columbia.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Mass customization Production planning...

... of the supply network internationalisation process, proposing a model that captures the variables actually involved in such a process and their dynamic relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Supplier relations Production planning Footwear industry Globalization Italy Romania...

... by which productivity and ergonomics could be jointly optimised for improved total system performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Production planning Productivity rates Ergonomics Cellular manufacturing Assembly lines Sweden In 2004, the International Journal...

...Geoff Buxey Purpose The paper reports on the ramifications for production planning when monthly sales exhibit predictable seasonal highs and lows. The literature first acknowledged and dealt with the (aggregate planning) problem 50 years ago. Nevertheless, there is neither evidence that industry...

... to be able to respond to dynamically changing market conditions, given the process choices within which they are operating. Originality/value Provides a unified approach for effective capacity management. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Production planning Market orientation...

... compression triangle. Production cycle Production planning Supply chain management Resources The time taken for goods‐in required production is eight days. We include activity (a) for the sake of completeness. The time spent for waiting the completion of activity (b) and (c), which is non value...

... of the processing‐ matrix of Table II , where processing times are given in parentheses in column 1. Production planning Heuristics Food industry In competing for market share, manufacturing facilities typically increase variety across product lines. In considering this development, the literature...

... statistical abstracts. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Industrial relations Mexico Manufacturing industry Production planning Globalization The work stoppage that began on Tuesday, January 31, 1995 at ABC Consumer Electronics quickly escalated into a fully‐fledged strike. Union representatives...

... of a series of similar orders from a particular customer, customisation by contract. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Competitive advantage Customization Empirical studies Manufacturing Production planning Manufacturing companies differ in the way they meet their demand. Some deliver products...

... Production planning maximize: (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) and x_j ≥ 0 for all j. This model solves for the optimal number of units of each of five products (x_j, j = 1, …, 5) while...

...J. Razmi; H. Rahnejat; M.K. Khan Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a simple decision‐making tool to deal with complex, unstructured and multi‐attribute problems. Selection of the most suitable production planning system (push or pull systems) requires the development of a tool to address...

... the aforementioned need and proposes that the integration should be done under the domain of the production planning process. Partial results of a running field research on the theme among manufacturing companies in Brazil are presented and discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Brazil Manufacturing strategy...

... Limited 1995 Decision making Just‐in‐time Matrix structure Organizational structure Production planning Quality function deployment The three types of objectives that a company generally strives to achieve: 1 Performance improvement objectives. Here the objectives...

... to investigate the performance of the proposed algorithms. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Just‐in‐time Kanban Manufacturing industry Production planning Stochastic modelling The optimal number of kanbans in a manufacturing system with general machine breakdowns and stochastic demands Houmin Yan...

...Mohammad Z. Meybodi Presents a hierarchical production planning (HPP) model that integrates aggregate‐type planning, family disaggregate planning,lot‐sizing, job scheduling and evaluation of the final production plans into a complete planning and scheduling system. In‐corporation of a simple...

... there was agreement between the larger survey of manufacturers and from Carrier‐Transicord (C‐T), as well as where there was significant disagreement. Carrier‐Transicord Just‐in‐time Management Manufacturing Operations management Production planning Success USA The just‐in‐time (JIT) production...

... flow of materials and item explosion. Despite the economic and environmental benefits of disassembly, researchers and practitioners are lagging behind in developing methodologies to address the operations and production planning and control issues associated with item segregation. These issues...