International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

Dynamic Simulation of a Kanban Production Inventory System

Maling Ebrahimpour, Batoul Modarress Fathi

The implementation of the Japanese inventory control system, Kanban, in a production line, reduces Work‐in‐Process (WIP) inventory without affecting production or sales, though…

Quality‐Related Decision Making: A Study in Six British Companies

B.G. Dale, A.J. Duncalf

Without a formulated quality management policy and a direct lead from the chief executive, companies are unlikely to be able to effectively co‐ordinate quality‐related decision…

The Flexible Manufacturing Mission — Some Implications for Management

Douglas K. Macbeth

Flexible manufacturing can be understood and managed even by non‐technological senior management provided they are involved in agreeing market parameters, technological…

Monitoring and Control in Service Operations

Bob Johnston, Barbara Morris

Service organisations do not always manage those items which affect customer satisfaction to the same level as manufacturing organisations, which indicates a possible mismatch…

Collective Bargaining and the Multi‐national Firm: Management Policy Issue for the Automobile Industry

George Munchus

A study of the auto industry, with particular reference to America, indicates that the role of the multinational company must be viewed in the perspective of labour situations…

Discovering Local Logics in the Hospital World

P.S. Agrell, J‐C. Moisdon

A project aiming to study the delineation of responsibilities between hospitals in Paris, with a view to improving administration of patients' admission and transfer led to the…

A Proposal for Standardisation of the Learning or Start‐up Curve

C. Carl Pegels

Use of the cumulative average cost start‐up formula as the standard (instead of the traditional incremental cost or unit cost formula) allows the derivation of cumulative total…