...Amrik S. Sohal; Richard Schroder; Enrico O. Uliana; William Maguire This paper presents the results of a survey of South African manufacturers that examined their planning and implementation activities relating to advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) investments. Data were collected by means...

...Keith Porter; David Little; Matthew Peck; Ralph Rollins Since the early 1970s, production planning systems have evolved from material requirements planning (MRP) through manufacturing resource planning (MRPII) into enterprise resource planning (ERP) with simultaneous development of related control...

...Alexander Howard; Ashok Kochhar; John Dilworth This paper describes the use of a set of manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system activities for assessing the functionality suitable in individual companies. Field studies were carried out in medium‐sized batch manufacturing companies...

... practice in manufacturing companies revealed that this interest has resulted in a limited use of benchmarking in overall terms and, in particular, has not led to benchmarking being undertaken at lower levels of manufacturing organisations. For example, the activities associated with manufacturing planning...

...Aldo Dagnino Presents an integrated approach to assembly planning for manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The integrated manufacturing assembly planning system (IMAPS) is a system that incorporates knowledge‐based techniques to assist process engineers with the development of assembly...

... expenditures. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Concurrent engineering Models Planning Product design Product development Productivity Systems integration For experimental purposes, the process is assumed to be capable of producing a mix of any of four different types of printed circuit boards...

...Kurt Rosander Demonstrates the importance of planning systems and indicates which planning systems are suitable for which purpose. Focuses on batch production in short series and reports on results from three cases,where the planning function has been adapted to the existing production organization...