International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 11 Issue 5

A Methodology for the Location of Facility Ingress/Egress Points

James T. Luxhoj

This article presents an integrated methodology for the inclusionof a facility′s interactions with the outside environment, and theimpact of those interactions on the location of…

An Examination of an Engine Manufacturing Plant′s Downtime and Production Standards

Toni M. Somers, Yash P. Gupta

In this article a case study is reported which deals withidentifying the sources of downtime, and a procedure which could helpmanagement to predict whether the daily production…

Industrial Progress and the Strategic Significance of JIT and TQC for Developing Countries

Sin‐Hoon Hum

There is now a wide body of literature pertaining to the Japanesemanufacturing philosophies and techniques embodied in the termsjust‐in‐time (JIT) and total quality control (TQC)…

Relational Database Management Systems: A New Tool for Coding and Classification

Byron J. Dangerfield, John S. Morris

In this article the properties of relational database managementsystems (DBMSs) are discussed. It is shown how they can be used as aneffective tool for performing the function of…

Plant Location Decisions in the Greek Food Industry

George P. Artikis

Attempts by Greek governments to attract manufacturing industry toproblem regions have been shaped by a large number of development laws.Location policy works principally by…

An Examination of the Purchasing Function in a Sales‐oriented Company

T.G. Howson, B.G. Dale

This article reports on an examination of the activities of apurchasing department in a sales‐oriented company. Amongst the mainfindings are: a company which has always based its…

Optimum Order Cycles in MRP Form a Geometric Progression

Sandeep Shah

Materials requirement planning (MRP) systems have severallot‐sizing rules, of which the periodic order quantity rule is the mostwidely used in practice. With this rule groups of…