... Industry 4.0 3D printing Additive manufacturing Networks Project management The social relevance of the use of AM in the industry of orthopedic implants is related to the benefits that more advanced products bring. Despite being a new field of study, the characteristics of this new production...

... 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 as an impediment...

...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...

...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...

... as a globally distributed 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...

... production management MRPII Networks Professionals During the 1980s and into the 1990s, the diffusion of computer‐aided production management (CAPM) technologies such as manufacturing resources planning (MRPII), just‐in‐time (JIT) and optimized production technology (OPT) through UK manufacturing...

... 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...