...Hélcio Martins Tristão; Pedro Carlos Oprime; Márcio Lopes Pimenta Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical development of the theme by the proposition of an industrial cluster typology method considering that the set of local variables related to the firms...

... as it also contributes to picking performance. Originality/value – Quality-based cluster analysis is carried out to find out closeness among customers, which is used to propose algorithm with new layout design, zoning and storage allocation policy. Professor Sanjay Sharma can be contacted at: s_nsit...

... it. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Clusters Knowledge workers Learning Productivity Every criticism can be an opportunity, an opportunity to revise the scope of work for productivity scientists. Manufacturing has for too long been dominated by experts according to Skinner (1983...