.... Therefore, the paper is important for those which practice industrial management, more specifically on PC and QC functions. Moacir Godinho Filho can be contacted at: moacir@dep.ufscar.br © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Production management Quality control Shopfloor Materials...

... required for rapid decision making on the shopfloor. One result of this kind of failure is that a significant amount of managerial time is taken up by manually scheduling and expediting jobs through the shop. Then the manager is forced, by time constraints, to operate in a reactive rather than a proactive...