... and decide the extent of reconfigurability necessary for their production systems, while considering their business, manufacturing and change strategies (Francalanza et al., 2016 ; Gumasta et al., 2011). Cluster analysis Performance indicators Questionnaires Flexible manufacturing...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation R&D Cluster analysis Manufacturing Industrial cluster Intellectual property Competitiveness Industrial design Footwear industry The processes of competition in capitalist markets...

... manufacturing industries has been developed in order to measure the company’s degree of application of lean practices. A survey was carried out, and a combination of cluster analysis and multi-group structural equation path model was developed in order to answer research hypotheses. Results suggest...

... manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka. Cluster analysis was used to identify alternative configurations of strategy process modes. Findings – The analyses confirmed that the existence of alternative forms of OS development is statistically significant and that the alternative configurations of strategy process...

... and perform cluster analysis to analyze patterns of manufacturing industries based on manufacturing industry data collected from US Census of Bureau. Following Porter's Five Forces Model, the authors perform in-depth case studies of four representative industries to analyze factors driving supply chain...

... are regarded as a valid and laudable way forward (Frohlich and Dixon, 2001 ; Martin-Pena and Diaz-Garrido, 2008). Manufacturing strategy Taxonomy Cluster analysis Ireland The Irish economy enjoyed a period of significant growth from the early 1990s until the global recession of 2008...

.... Design/methodology/approach On the basis of this review, the stages of development of companies incubated in the Incubating Center for Technological Companies São Paulo, Brazil, were analyzed and through the integration of three different statistical techniques (factorial analysis, cluster analysis...

... the number of clusters is in fact an additional use of the proposed approach, i.e. it serves as a basis for choosing the right number of cells required by some cell formation methods. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Cellular manufacturing Manufacturing systems Cluster analysis...

... on economic development in transition countries and as such contribute in filling gaps within the existing body of knowledge. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Competitive strategy Cluster analysis Small to medium‐sized enterprises Agglomeration Over the last few years, trade...

..., the process of shearing would require cuts made with the same geometry, stress and tolerances (Dooley et al., 1998, p. 281). Manufacturing Classification Cluster analysis Knowledge Increasing global competition, rapid technological development, customisation and speed to market...

... al., 1989). In this paper a fuzzy clustering approach is proposed to select part families and machine cells of CMS. This approach is tested and evaluated using numerical examples from the literature. The objective of cluster analysis is to group a set of objects into a number of clusters...

...P. Gu The grouping of parts and machines for design of cellular manufacturing systems is carried out by clustering analysis. Two major drawbacks of some clustering algorithms have been identified in handling bottleneck machines for forming machine cells. These drawbacks include solution...