...Ai-Hsuan Chiang; Ming-Yuan Huang Purpose Rapid response is often the cornerstone of success in many industries, especially manufacturing. In the authors’ opinion, organizational structure will also affect the construction of a fast-response supply chain system. The main purpose of this research...

... of integration, except when there is high interdependence and strong ties allow for culture‐based control systems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Parent companies Subsidiaries Globalization Organizational culture Organizational structure Supply Summing up, this literary...

.... Organizational growth demands CE and it is important to consider how changes to the organizational structure can best enhance the implementation of CE principles. Organizational change Organizational structure Simultaneous engineering A toy manufacturer retains an organizational structure long after...

...Thomas J. Crowe; Edward J. Stahlman Discusses the movement away from hierarchical organizational structures towards flatter, heterarchical, structures which is reflected in the growing interest in distributed manufacturing control systems. Traditional hierarchical control systems are limited...

... on the communication capabilities of information technologies as opposed to their more traditional transaction processing roles. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Concurrent engineering Database management Information systems Organizational structure Product development Production planning Concurrent...

... with the impact of JIT‐FMS integration on organizational structure; 3 economic issues at the system management level. We first examine: What are JIT and FMS? What are their benefits? Schonberger[ 3 ] states that “the just‐in‐time concept can simply be described as the production...

... Organizational structure Technological change Computer‐integrated manufacturing 14 INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS 2,2 M any manufacturing firms are attempt­ ing to find their way out of the Fordist/ mass production paradigm. What is the shape of what is to come? A New Paradigm for the Organisation...