International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 16 Issue 3

Set‐up reduction in pharmaceutical manufacturing: an action research study

M. Gilmore, D.J. Smith

The Japanese approach to manufacturing has been well documented. Many European firms have successfully adopted and adapted a variety of Japanese manufacturing techniques. This…

An iterative procedure for solving the uncapacitated production‐distribution problem under concave cost function

Mohamed A. Youssef, Mohamed M. Mahmoud

Under production economies of scale, the trade‐off between production and transportation costs will create a tendency towards a decentralized decision‐making process. First…

Hospital policy changes in obstetric patient movement

Kathleen L. McFadden

In preparation for health care reform, many hospitals are contemplating redesigning their physical facilities and altering patient care policies. Uses a large Texas hospital as…

A survey and taxonomy of strategy‐related performance measures for manufacturing

Gregory P. White

Although the topic of manufacturing performance measurement has recently attracted considerable interest, little has been done to enumerate or classify the measures that exist…

Automated JIT based materials management for lot manufacture

Jay Jina

The challenge facing manufacturing today is one of providing the customer with greater product variety deliverable in ever shorter lead‐times, while minimizing development and…

Job‐shop sequencing problems via network scheduling technique

Edem O.P. Akpan

Examines a new approach to job‐shop sequencing problems. This is based on a network scheduling technique on the premiss of limited resource availability to achieve minimum total…

The effects of varying set‐up costs

Fuchiao Chyr

The concept of zero inventory (ZI) is a powerful tool to improve production economics. The major factor in ZI is set‐up cost reduction. Examines what will happen when set‐up costs…