International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 7 Issue 4

Teaching and Research Directions in Production/Operations Management: The Manufacturing Sector

T.J. Hill

The pendulum of importance has swung decisively towards the area of production/operations management. This gives POM faculty an opportunity: it is critical that POM faculty within…

Dealing with Inherent Variability: The Difference Between Manufacturing and Service?

Barbara Morris, Robert Johnston

The debate about whether any difference exists between manufacturing and service operations is discussed. There is no difference per se between the two types of operation and that…

Production Management Techniques: A Proposed Methodology for Overcoming Barriers to Acceptance

John S. Oakland, Amrik Sohal

This paper presents the results of the second part of a study into the “barriers to acceptance of production management techniques in UK manufacturing industry”. The results of a…

The Flexibility of Manufacturing Systems

Nigel Slack

Many of the new pressures from today's manufacturing environment are turning manufacturing managers' attention to the virtues of developing a flexible manufacturing function…

Application of Just‐in‐Time Manufacturing Techniques in the United Kingdom

C.A. Voss, S.J. Robinson

There is widespread interest and discussion of Just‐in‐Time (JIT) manufacturing but little is known about the actual uptake and pattern of use of JIT and its constituent…

Supplier Management in Support of JIT Activity: A Research Agenda

Douglas K. Macbeth

Applications of AMT and JIT suggest a different relationship should evolve between buyers and suppliers. At a detailed level this will involve supplier selection and monitoring…

The Introduction of JIT into a High Technology Electronics Manufacturing Environment

George Neil, Jim O'Hara

This paper is a case history of the introduction of Just‐in‐Time (JIT) into a company in the electronic capital goods sector of the Scottish electronics industry. The case…

Incorporating Forgetting into Learning Curves

Shlomo Globerson

Organisational learning curve analysis and its inverse, organisational forgetting are discussed. The issues involved and a framework for analysing and incorporating forgetting and…