...Phillip Marksberry; Joshua Bustle; Jeff Clevinger Purpose Toyota's success in the automotive industry has been attributed to many factors, one of which is their systematic company‐wide problem‐solving approach. While Toyota's structured framework for thinking through problems may offer some...

... to support his decision. The causes of problems can be summarized as below: Walter W.C. Chung can be contacted at: mfwalter@inet.polyu.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Statistical process control Decision support systems Neural nets Problem solving Decision‐making...

... of the probability that one layout is better than the others. An example is presented to illustrate our proposed approach. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Facility layout Problem solving Measurement Quality The design of the facility layout has generally been recognized as an important issue in modern...

... (QIP). The main activities of the programme are initial education, planning and organisation of company projects, the reactive problem solving process, company‐wide work unit analysis and initiation of a continuous improvement process. This paper focuses on the improvement section of the programme...

... is then used to help understand how the effects of these variables contribute to a firm’s competitiveness. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Flexibility Job shop Problem solving Production planning The basic research question addressed by this paper and thus its contribution to the literature is: What...

..., and define and analyse the data so that they are ready for the simulation process. Clarifies with a case study the methodology and its use as a part of a logistics simulation project. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Data collection Logistics Problem solving Simulation During recent years easy...