...Daqiang Guo; Mingxing Li; Ray Zhong; G.Q. Huang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an intelligent manufacturing system for transforming production management and operations to an Industry 4.0 manufacturing paradigm. Design/methodology/approach A manufacturing mode-Graduation...

... (Kronienko et al., 2004). Production scheduling Simulation Manufacturing systems Productivity rate Competitive strategy Agent‐based computation has been regarded as an important approach for the modeling and simulation of manufacturing systems (Jenning and Wooldridge, 1998 ; Shen...

... Group Publishing Limited 2011 Distribution Manufacturing systems International marketing Sweden Case studies Currently most of the supply chains are international, which means that raw materials and components are procured from all over the world, transformed into new products...

... in a finished product n_ij=number of items i utilized at station j per each unit of finished product © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Assembly lines Parts Just in time Manufacturing systems C_c=container unit cost C_E=equipments capital cost...

.... transport planning; 2. optimization; and 3. execution (Gilmore and Tompkins, 2000). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Distribution management Information systems Manufacturing systems Brazil The adoption of logistics information systems (LIS) is regarded by many...

... the influence of Chinese culture and macro‐control, is promoted. Josu Takala can be contacted at: jot@uwasa.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Competitive strategy Strategic manufacturing Manufacturing systems Benchmarking Analytical hierarchy process China...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Simulation Manufacturing systems Strategic planning Simulation research related to automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems is as well established as the manufacturing systems simulation discipline; in real‐life these two systems interact regularly...

... Configuration management Software tools Manufacturing systems Integration Design Configurators are software tools that allow a user to define a product that meets certain given criteria by combining a number of parts, features or functions. In practice, a configurator is a software application...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Electronics industry Manufacturing systems Enterprise zones Resource management Agile manufacturing is a concept describing maintaining good productivity under pressure of uncertainty. A useful definition of agility is “the capability of reacting to unpredictable...

... assemblies such as BWGs products. These structures and the associated product documentation may be integrated and communicate in real time with ERP systems via SAP applications. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Manufacturing systems New products Project management Manufacturing...

... in the organization and also how to reduce the alignment gap. To summarize, this study proposes an adaptation framework containing a set of propositions and hypotheses to delineate the relevant research issues. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Manufacturing resource planning Manufacturing systems...

...Hassan M. Selim The design of a cellular manufacturing system requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine groups called manufacturing cells. A new graph partitioning heuristic is proposed to solve the manufacturing cell formation problem (MCFP). In the proposed heuristic...

...Bin Wu Aims to set systems thinking into the context of manufacturing systems management (MSM), which is defined as a functional domain that involves the necessary activities such as design, implementation, operations and monitoring, needed to regulate and optimise a manufacturing system...

... re‐design within Hong Kong’s small‐ to medium‐sized industries (SME) through the use of data flow analysis (DFA). Business process analysis Small‐to‐medium sized enterprise Manufacturing systems To remain competitive, enterprises have to introduce improvement programmes for both...

... Limited 1999 Accounting systems Management accounting Manufacturing Manufacturing systems Accounting systems started to become automated only about 30 years ago. Accounting systems were the first systems to become automated because the electronic data processing systems (EDP...

... is described. The pre‐implementation strategy is based on a systems analysis and design project procedure that extricates sources of inefficiencies and establishes a foundation of sound management practices. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Computer‐integrated manufacturing Manufacturing systems Productivity...

...Bin‐Shan Lin; Jerome M. Hatcher Forecasting is considered as a key element in formulating manufacturing systems. There is a wealth of information about forecasting methods but little has been written about forecasting systems. An outline of an approach to build Decision Support Systems(DSS...