International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 12 Issue 7/8

Knowledge and Material Flow in Future Industrial Networks

Christer Karlsson

An analysis of the strategies and structures of original equipmentmanufacturer (OEM) firms, consisting mainly of automobile firms but alsoincluding manufacturers of white goods…

Market Orientedness of Improvement Programmes in Manufacturing: Results from Field Study Research

D.J. Draaijer

Details how to formulate improvement programmes withinmanufacturing, what is current practice within several companies, andhow appropriate current practice is. Presents a model of…

Organizing for Manufacturing Innovation: The Case of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Harry Boer, Koos Krabbendam

Reports research which aimed to find the organizational conditionsrequired for companies considering innovating their operating core byadopting any advanced manufacturing…

Management of Uncertainty in AMT Implementation: The Case of FMS

Per Lindberg

Asks how implementation management affects implementationuncertainty, adaptation cycles and performance. Assesses retrospectivecase studies of three Swedish FMS implementation…

Implementing Integrating Technologies: Developing Managerial Integration for CAD/CAM

David Twigg, Christopher A. Voss, Graham M. Winch

Companies are increasingly adopting technologies that can promoteintegration between functions and tasks. The implementation of thesetechnologies has largely concerned the tasks…

Changing Manufacturing Strategy: Some Approaches and Experiences

N.J. Kinnie, R.V.W. Staughton, E.H. Davies

Examines the part that “non‐technical” factors play inthe experience of changing a manufacturing strategy. Considers, inparticular, the importance of these factors in the…

The Role of Management in Production Units with Autonomous Work Groups

Sigvard Rubenowitz

Claims that the most important demands on managers insociotechnical organized systems with more or less autonomous workgroups are generally that they must have a basic trust in…

Reflective Production in the Final Assembly of Motor Vehicles – An Emerging Swedish Challenge

Kajsa Ellegärd, Dan Jonsson, Tomas Engström, Mats I. Johansson, Lars Medbo, Bertil Johansson

Presents some theoretical principles and empirical evidencerelating to the new Swedish production systems for final assembly ofmotor vehicles. Contends that in these production…

Preconditions for Long Cycle Time Assembly and Its Management – Some Findings

Tomas Engström, Lars Medbo

Reports results from research collaboration between university andindustry from the last six years (1985‐91) intensive work on thedevelopment of the radically new production…

Flexible Production in the Chemical Industry – A Question of Competence

Maria Thilander

The stiffening international competition facing the Swedishchemical industry has led to a transition from commodity chemicals tospeciality chemicals. Emphasis on speciality…

Investment Justification of Flexible Manufacturing Technologies: Inferences from Field Research

Regine Slagmulder, Werner Bruggeman

The literature offers a variety of different views on theinvestment decision process for flexible manufacturing technologies, butthere seems to be no consensus about what are…

Demand Management and Production Control in Process Industries

Jan C. Fransoo

In a changing and more dynamic market of the 1980s, availablemathematical programming algorithms on which production planning inprocess industries was based did not provide the…

Flying Prototypes: Production Departments′ Direct Interaction with External Customers

Preben Sander Kristensen

Reports on research in the Danish food industry which has developeda pattern of product development interaction where rich informationpasses directly between the production…