International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 13 Issue 6

Planning for Continual Improvement in a Just‐in‐Time Environment

Scott R. Swenseth, Krishnamurty Muralidhar, Rick L. Wilson

Addresses the dynamic, continual‐improvement nature of the JITimplementation process. Learning curves are incorporated to analyse theimpact of continual reduction of processing…

Expert Advice for JIT Implementation

K. Fiedler, J.E. Galletly, J. Bicheno

Describes an expert system which goes some way towards providingdetailed advice for implementing Just‐in‐Time (JIT) concepts in amanufacturing environment. Advises managers as to…

Rethinking Integrated Concept Foundations: A Just‐in‐Time Argument for Linking Production/Operations and Logistics Management

Robert A. Novack, L.M. Rinehart, S.A. Fawcett

Increasing emphasis is being placed on integrated thinking inbusiness decision making. Part of that emphasis requires a betterunderstanding of the basic concepts that are used to…

A Logistics‐based Inventory Model for JIT Procurement

Ranga V. Ramasesh

Although some recent articles have extended the traditionaleconomic order quantity models to JIT purchasing, their value is limitedby the simplistic nature of the underlying…

Developing a Visual Interactive Simulation Model for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

JrJung Lyu, A. Gunasekaran

Describes how to develop a visual interactive simulation model forflexible manufacturing systems. SIMPLE_1, an integrated modellingenvironment, is selected as the simulation…

Drum‐Buffer‐Rope and Buffer Management: Impact on Production Management Study and Practices

Stanley C. Gardiner, John H. Blackstone, Lorraine R. Gardiner

The drum‐buffer‐rope/buffer management approach radically changesthe content of production management practice, research and pedagogy.Documents the major impacts that…

A Goal‐programming Model for Activity Crashing in Project Networks

I.M. Premachandra

Managers often face the problem of making project decisions thatinvolve a large number of interrelated activities – the planningand scheduling of which is project management…

A Note on ″A Comparison of Heuristic Methods for Service Facility Locations″

J.‐M. Thizy

In a recent article, A. Ardalan presented a heuristic for servicefacility location. This heuristic is the Add heuristic of Kuehn andHamburger, originally applied to warehouse…