...Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos; Evangelos Psomas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide additional evidence of the impact of innovation on three dimensions of a firm’s performance, namely product quality, operational performance and financial performance. Design/methodology/approach...

...Parimal Kopardekar; Anil Mital; Sam Anand Inspection is an activity that controls the outgoing product quality and involves search, detection and measurement or diagnosis. Traditionally, inspection tasks have been allocated to humans. Attempts to automate industrial inspection in order to eliminate...

... to a local role for the provision of economic gains. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Competitiveness Flexibility Innovation New technology Product quality Advanced manufacturing technologies 4 INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS 2,3 T he link between technology and strategy is examined in 20...