...Linda L. Zhang; Brian Rodrigues Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. In view of the importance of process platform‐based production configuration (PPbPC) in sustaining product family production efficiency, it is to study the underlying logic for configuring production processes...

...Er‐shun Pan; Yao Jin; Ying Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an extensive economic production quantity (EPQ) model on the basis of previous research. Considering an imperfect three‐state production process, this paper makes contributions to an integrated model combining...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Operations and production management Production processes Performance measures With the increase of global competition manufacturers have come under pressure from stakeholders to produce products that are more reliable with more features...

...Rajkumar Roy; Essam Shehab; Ashutosh Tiwari; Nicola Morelli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodological approach to design product service systems based on an active participation of customers to the value production process. Furthermore, the paper aims to present methods...

... of the success of the strategic decision to acquire the technology can be improved. Andrew Greasley can be contacted at: a.greasley@aston.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Production processes Simulation Automation This paper presents a simulation study of a major investment...

... the optimal settings of the process parameters of the production process for products with multiple characteristics. Tong et al. (1997) propose a procedure on the basis of the quality loss of each response so as to achieve the optimization on multi‐response problems in the Taguchi method...

...Stella Sofianopoulou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an application of cellular manufacturing techniques and the evaluation of alternative production scenarios. Design/methodology/approach Advanced techniques were implemented in the production process of a company...