.... Practical implications The importance of a contingency‐based approach to production planning and control is confirmed. Comprehensive WLC approaches are closely aligned with the high‐variety/low‐volume context of make‐to‐order (MTO) companies. Originality/value This is the first paper that empirically...

... Product development Production planning and control Engineering change Engineering capacity planning and control New product development Discontinuous innovation © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 This study is based on data from a large industrial equipment manufacturing...

.... What organizational changes facilitate application of FP to a product family and why is it so? Alessio Trentin can be contacted at: alessio.trentin@unipd.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Mass customization Production planning and control Product management Operations...

.../value Provides an introduction to the special issue. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Operations and production management Production planning and control Not long after I joined Cranfield to take up the Chair in Operations Management in 1978, Gordon Wills, Martin...

... 2005 --> Operations and production management Production planning and control It was in early 1995 that we, that is, my colleagues Ruth Boaden, Bernard Burnes and myself, were invited by Keith Howard to take over the editorship of the Journal. We accepted formal responsibility on 1 July...

... task. Originality/value Provides an introduction to the special issue. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Operations and production management Production planning and control There have been three former editors/editorial teams for IJOPM. Colin New at Cranfield...

... changed operations management practices and research. Originality/value Provides an introduction to the special issue. Operations and production management Production planning and control In this special issue we celebrate the 25th anniversary of IJOPM by featuring six articles...

..., a second dimension of decoupling points, referred to as CODP_ED, covering the continuum between ETO_ED and ETS_ED, is defined. Integrated manufacturing systems Production planning and control Order processing Customer requirements Understanding customer...

... extend and develop earlier research by exploring the process of strategic change over time and the forces responsible for any alternations in direction. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Retailing Strategic planning Production planning and control These findings also stress...

... of hospitals in countries of the Middle East. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Hospitals Sultanate of Oman Performance appraisal Data analysis Production planning and control Health is one of the important social sectors. An adequate level of health of citizens is important...

... designer. Vendors Inventory control Management Supply chain Dynamics Production planning and control It is well established that removing an echelon in a supply chain can be of great benefit in improving dynamic performance (Wikner et al., 1991). This is because...

... and are in the process of understanding modern shop floor control principles. The research results should help many potential foreign investors to better understand the readiness of Polish manufacturing management to implement modern production planning and control techniques such as MRP, MRPII, or JIT. Table I...

... manufacturing is achieved when the engineering‐based computer‐aided tools (CAD, CAP, CAM, CAQ) are bound up with the different stages of the managerial production planning and control (PPC) system to allow the effective use of all relevant information sources (Scheer, 1994). Reliable, high quality, fast...

... Heuristics Inventory control MRP Production planning and control Supply‐chain management Multiple‐stage production planning addresses systems which transform and/or transfer inventories through a set of connected stages, to produce finished goods. In its most generalized form, such a system may...

... to do so. Flexibility FMS Manufacturing strategy Measurement Production planning and control Vedat Verter University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada The need to measure production flexibility is frequently quoted as a requirement in technology selection decisions...

... computing Production planning and control Scheduling A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) utilizes numerically controlled machines and automated material handling devices to produce a large variety of parts of medium batch sizes. The use of an FMS enables manufacturers to enjoy the benefits...

...J.K. Porter; P. Jarvis; D. Little; J. Laakmann; C. Hannen; M. Schotten Discusses briefly the impact of MRP on UK manufacturing industry in the context of the next generation of developments. Draws a contrast with production planning and control systems in Germany which derive shopfloor control...