International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 15 Issue 5

Integrating production activity control into a hierarchical production‐planning model

Mohammad Z. Meybodi

Presents a hierarchical production planning (HPP) model thatintegrates aggregate‐type planning, family disaggregate planning,lot‐sizing, job scheduling and evaluation of the final…

Measuring complexity as an aid to developing operational strategy

G. Frizelle, E. Woodcock

One of the difficulties in developing a coherent operationalstrategy is to know how the various elements of a manufacturing systeminteract and to assess the relevant importance of…

Performance measurement as a surrogate value of organizational human resource

M.K. Kolay, K.C. Sahu

Proposes a method to assess the relative value of organizationalhuman resource (HR) based on total performance. The total performance ofthe man‐machine resource base of an…

Just‐in‐time manufacturing and logistical complexity: a contingency model

Jeffrey L. Funk

Presents a model that hypothesizes relationships between logisticalcomplexity and both the importance of JIT manufacturing and the mostappropriate organization structure for…

An exploration of the components of JIT: Case study and survey results

Michael S. Spencer, V. Daniel Guide

The positive impact of just‐in‐time (JIT) programmes on productionperformance is well documented. JIT programmes consist of a number ofdifferent elements including change‐over…

JIT and TQM: a case for joint implementation

Kiran Vuppalapati, Sanjay L. Ahire, Tarun Gupta

The post‐Second World War era has seen the emergence of twostrategies to improve the operational effectiveness of manufacturingfirms: just‐in‐time (JIT) production systems and…

Shared computer‐integrated manufacturing for various types of production environment

T.M.A. Ari Samadhi, K. Hoang

Small manufacturing companies make up the base industrial backboneof many countries including the USA. Even though CIM is generallybelieved to help manufacturers to compete…