... Shopfloor Just in time Work organization Value chain Geographical context Companies currently need to find solutions to certain challenges that they are subjected to by the competition, the marketplace and the institutional environment they are in through their management style. This new...

... grouping of machines and defects, rather the groupings are shown on a continuum from the upper left to the lower right. Douglas N. Hales can be contacted at: dhales@uri.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Quality improvement Action research Shopfloor Operations...

... their cultures or how best to deal with the inherently challenging and demanding nature of process improvement with shop floor operators. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Operations management Continuing development Kaizen Shopfloor Employee development The second stage, the focus of this paper...

... brought. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Poland Manufacturing industry Shopfloor Production planning and control On January 1, 1990, a program of radical reforms was introduced to create the institutional and economic basis for a market economy in Poland. The process of privatization...

...Paul P.M. Stoop; Vincent C.S. Wiers Successful implementations of scheduling techniques in practice are scarce. Not only do daily disturbances lead to a gap between theory and practice, but also the extent to which a scheduling technique can adequately model the processes on the shopfloor...

..., percentage tardy and mean flowtime measures of performance. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Job shop Manufacturing industry Ordering systems Production scheduling Sequencing Shopfloor Most of the research on job shops has focused on sequencing rules in isolation from order review release (ORR...

...Joel D. Wisner Reviews a critical aspect of job shop scheduling research, namely the decision regarding release timing of orders to the manufacturing shopfloor. Covers articles specifically addressing the order release problem; the information should prove helpful for researchers employing order...

... heuristic scheduling algorithm into the HPP model is the primary contribution. The scheduling routine schedules the jobs based on just‐in‐time (JIT) concept and provides detailed shopfloor information such as job tardiness, bottleneck work centres, capacity level,inventory or shortage level and number...

...T.A.J. Nicholson The study of manufacturing strategy has now become established. But what about the shopfloor where it is supposed to be implemented? How well is this understood? This article follows through the strategy logic and then creates a complementary model for understanding the working...