International Journal of Operations & Production Management articles from May 1995

International Journal of Operations & Production Management archives from May 1995

Integrating production activity control into a hierarchical production-planning model.
May 1, 1995... Introduction During the last two decades, hierarchical production planning (HPP) has received considerable attention among researchers for solving large-scale production-planning problems. The main idea in HPP is to decompose a large-scale...

Measuring complexity as an aid to developing operational strategy.
May 1, 1995... This article describes the work carried out in Cambridge University, CSC Manufacturing Practice and British Aerospace to develop and use a measure for manufacturing complexity. One of the difficulties in developing a coherent operational...

Performance measurement as a surrogate value of organizational human resource.
May 1, 1995... Introduction The credit for organizational performance is due to its employees, remarks the chairman of every corporate house. In fact, the human resource (HR) is the prime mover of an organization. Being the most fundamental of all...

Just-in-time manufacturing and logistical complexity: a contingency model.
May 1, 1995... Introduction Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing has become synonymous with excellence in many discussions of manufacturing. Sometimes called lean production, it is used in a wide variety of industries such as automobiles, consumer electronics,...

An exploration of the components of JIT: case study and survey results. (just-in-time production-planning and control system)
May 1, 1995... Introduction The just-in-time (JIT) production-planning and control system has been the subject of an increasing amount of research over recent years. Initially the field was examined in general terms to identify the behaviour of the system....

JIT and TQM: a case for joint implementation. (just-in-time manufacturing, total quality management)
May 1, 1995... Introduction In the post-Second World War era, the Japanese have given the industrial world two revolutionary approaches: just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing and total quality management (TQM). In the USA, serious adoption of these approaches...

Shared computer-integrated manufacturing for various types of production environment.
May 1, 1995... Introduction It has been widely recognized that the environment where manufacturers work at present and in the future will be one of constantly changing products, technology and increasing complexity. Important abilities which manufacturers...