... for the manufacturing of medical implants, not found in other models. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Industry 4.0 3D printing Additive manufacturing Networks Project management AM is defined as the process of joining materials layer upon...

... Strategic management Technological innovation Networks Capabilities Resource management Despite the considerable contribution the manufacturing sector has made to China’s GDP growth (Vaidya et al., 2007 ; Xia and Walker, 2015), the low added value it creates has gradually emerged...

...Zaza Nadja Lee Hansen; Yufeng Zhang; Saeema Ahmed‐Kristensen Purpose Companies are increasingly engaged with global engineering networks through offshoring of product development activities from R&D to production. This creates many new challenges as operations get physically and culturally...

... and coordinated network distinct from the traditional plant model (Ferdows, 1989; 1997; Flaherty, 1996; Shi and Gregory, 1998). For many people in the field, as the manufacturing strategy (Skinner, 1969) bridges manufacturing system design and market demands and competitive priorities, manufacturing globalisation...

...Chris Ellegaard; John Johansen; Anders Drejer This article is about managing industrial buyer‐supplier relations as seen from the customer perspective. Two successful examples of supplier network management are described, and the limits to broader applicability of these supply management principles...

... solutions, suitable for any firm context. The importance of this framework is that it recognizes that the supply side shapes availability of the technologies. This current research has focused on what other networks exist, which could have influenced the diffusion of CAPM technologies in the UK. Where...

... MCB UP Limited 1990 Computer‐integrated manufacturing Motor industry Networks Networking Products still the limit for MAP must make MAP part of their procure­ ment requirements, and must base their factory automation project designs on MMS - the manufacturing message specification which...