Industrial Management articles from January 1997

Industrial Management archives from January 1997

Rapid prototyping: state-of-the-art manufacturing.
January 1, 1997... Rapid prototyping is the direct conversion of an electronic computer-aided design model into a solid physical model. The creation of prototype models for design refinement is central to the new product development process. According to Ashley,...

Using SPC in the semiconductor industry. (statistical process control)
January 1, 1997... The concept of statistical process control (SPC) is not new to the semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry has been using SPC for a long time to successfully reduce scrap and improve quality. Using SPC during the testing phase,...

Closure efficiency index: a new method for inventory management.
January 1, 1997... The increasing pressure on companies to manage inventories efficiently demands significant changes and improvements to traditional inventory management methods. This need is magnified when considering that material purchasing and inventory...

Convex-envelope method of optimal capital budgeting.
January 1, 1997... Capital budgeting is a process designed to achieve the greatest profitability and cost effectiveness in the private and public sectors of the economy. Because measurements of profitability and cost effectiveness are not universal, engineers,...

Managing the messages of change: lessons from the field.
January 1, 1997... In scholarly circles, there has perhaps been no greater challenge to organizational theorists than that of searching for the elusive formula for managing change. For practitioners in the field, the task of guiding an organization through a change...

Flexibility management: the ultimate strategy.
January 1, 1997... The seventies was the decade of "Productivity," the eighties focused on "Total Quality Management, and the nineties belong to "Flexibility." Emphasis is being placed on restructuring, reengineering, and reinventing in order to make the company...