...Ozgur Kabadurmus; Mehmet Bulent Durmusoglu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the lean manufacturing literature by providing a roadmap for pull production control system (PCS) implementation. Design/methodology/approach Axiomatic Design (AD) methodology is used to develop...

... manufacturers industry. Design/methodology/approach This study has been conducted using a single case study method. The single case study enabled the authors to analyze the implementation of PSS in a complex project environment, where the unit of analysis is an organization that designs, builds and delivers...

...Henry Schäfer; Daniel Jacob Sorensen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a general valuation model for the optimal design of the product development process, exemplified by automobile development. Underpinning this model is the identification of key business processes, which...

..., and careful planning and monitoring. A recommendation from outside of manufacturing is that information and communication design should be carried out in conjunction with ICT applications. The purpose of the research reported in this paper is to investigate the relevance of information and communication...

...Mohsen; Hassan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assist facility designers decide when to use the graph‐theoretic (GTH) approach to develop a block layout and when to seek another alternative that requires a lesser effort. Difficulties encountered when a GTH block layout is developed from...

...Pingyu Jiang; Shuichi Fukuda; Pingyu Jiang; Xiangtong Yan; Yang Liu Purpose The purpose of this research is to develop a kind of new service‐driven MEMS “top‐down” design method and implement the correspondent web‐based software prototype as verification. Design/methodology/approach Bond...

... relate to the segregation of these dimensions. This paper seeks to examine the ideas and to propose an integrated approach to facilitate the dynamic and simultaneous design and development of products and supply chains, thus contributing to the notion of agile supply chains. Design/methodology...

...Edward D. Arnheiter; Hendrik Harren Purpose Benefits of modularity are being limited by the lack of agreement over terminology. Neither researchers nor managers use the same typology, complicating comparisons of modular strategies. Design/methodology/approach Presents existing problem...

...Te‐King Chien Although many new technologies have been developed in facilities design, the systematic layout planning (SLP) procedure is the most widely used among enterprises and the academic world. The practical applications in a traditional SLP require intricate steps yet their results lack...

...Sun Shouqian; Lin Zongkai Conceptual design is important in that it determines the creativity of products, which is key to the competition of the product market and the function and cost of product are mainly determined in this phase. At the same time it is complex in that it involves...

...Daizhong Su; Xiaoan Chen A framework of network support for utilization of integrated design over the Internet has been developed. The techniques presented are also applicable for intranet/extranet. The integrated design system was initially developed for local application in a single site...

...Daizhong Su; Shuyan Ji; Nariman Amin; J.B. Hull A Web‐based multi‐user system has been developed to remotely execute a large size software package via the Internet. The software implements a genetic algorithm to optimize the design of spur and helical gears. To accomplish this, a combination...

...N. Boubekri; Pinaki Chakraborty The application of robots to industrial problems often requires grasping and manipulation of the work piece. The robot is able to perform a task adequately only when it is assigned proper tooling and adequate methods of grasping and handling work pieces. The design...

... provide the degree of membership of a part/machine associated with each part family/machine cell. This would provide users with more flexibility in designing part families and machine cells. A number of CMS design approaches have been developed. Comprehensive reviews of cell design approaches...

... for market research and process design purposes. The Internet seems to be needed for advertising, sales support, and, occasionally, for market research and to aid the JIT manufacturing process. All companies who do not use the Internet in their business intend to utilize the Internet in the future, most...

...J. Toussaint; K. Cheng This paper is to investigate a Web‐based engineering approach to enable engineers to use, share, and simulate effectively and efficiently design and manufacturing data through the World Wide Web. The enabling techniques to implement such an approach are critically discussed...

...David Twigg The integration of design and manufacturing operations within the firm has been much discussed, particularly with respect to the development of a concurrent engineering approach to product development. Where product development activities occur between firms, the issue of design...

...Fiorenzo Franceschini; Sergio Rossetto The paper is concerned with the problem of the “prioritization” of technical design characteristics of a product. An interactive algorithm has been developed with the aim to better support the engineering design process by means of quality function deployment...

...Sung‐Yong Son; Tava Lennon Olsen; Derek Yip‐Hoi Line balancing has been an important technique for manufacturing system design, because a completely balanced system can provide maximum resource utilization at the designed capacity. However, even if a system is completely balanced, it still has...

...D.E. Santos‐Reyes; T. Lawlor‐Wright The demand for more stringent environmental regulation on product end‐of‐life and production processes is enhanced by customer concerns for environmental protection. This has increased the need for industry to address environmental issues in the product design...