International Journal of Operations & Production Management articles from December 1996

International Journal of Operations & Production Management archives from December 1996

Advanced manufacturing technologies: determinants of implementation success.
December 1, 1996... Introduction The quest for lower operating costs and improved manufacturing efficiency has forced a large number of manufacturing firms to embark on advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) projects of various types. The dramatic...

Expert systems in production and operations management: current applications and future prospects.
December 1, 1996... Introduction Expert systems (ESs) solve problems that are normally solved by human "experts". An ES is a problem-solving package that mimics a human expert in a specialized area. An ES can also be defined as a computer program that exhibits,...

Operationalizing manufacturing strategy: an exlporatory study of constructs and linkage.
December 1, 1996... Introduction During the last decade, the pressures of increasing global competition and the rapid changes in product and process technologies have increased operations managers' interest in manufacturing strategy. The Manufacturing Futures...

Inventory management of repairable service parts for personal computers: a case study.
December 1, 1996... Introduction The production process in many consumer manufacturing organizations has changed drastically in recent years. Attention has shifted from increasing efficiency by means of economics of scale and internal specialization to meeting...

Using just-time analysis to study the maintenance problem of gearboxes.
December 1, 1996... Introduction This paper is a report on the methodology for determining an efficient and effective policy to maintain gearboxes within a franchised bus company, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1993) Limited (KMB) in Hong Kong. The preliminary...

A prototype expert system for the evaluation and selection of potential suppliers.
December 1, 1996... Introduction A basic part of business management is the purchasing function. Within the purchasing function, one of the prime responsibilities is the evaluation and selection of suppliers. This is true for all types of business enterprise,...