International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 9 Issue 7

Effects of Technical Experience on Robot Implementations

D.M. McCutcheon, A.R. Wood

It is often assumed that firms with more experience using advancedmanufacturing technologies can implement new production equipment moreeasily because such experience provides…

Modular System Design and Control for Flexible Assembly

Sushil Rajput, David Bennett

Flexible Assembly Systems (FASs) are normally associated with theautomatic, or robotic, assembly of products, supported by automatedmaterial handling systems. However, manual…

A Monetary Incentive Plan for Machine‐paced Operations

Biman Das, Alberto Garcia‐Diaz, Clarence L. Hough

For machine‐paced operations a two‐factor monetary incentive planis developed by employing production quantity output and productionwaste as criteria for incentive earnings. The…

The Usage of Computer‐Integrated Manufacturing Technology within Manufacturing Organisations in the North East of England

W.M. Walker

This article presents the results of a survey of the manufacturingactivities of 60 engineering companies located in the North East ofEngland. The survey was carried out in order…

Simulating Availability in a Manufacturing Plant

R.P. Mohanty

A simulation procedure is presented to estimate the throughputavailability of a serially interconnected manufacturing system. Themodel presented in the article is able to analyse…

A Despatching Rule to Allow Trade‐offs between Inventory and Customer Satisfaction

Timothy D. Fry, Patrick R. Philipoom

In job‐shop scheduling research, the shortest processing timedespatching rule (SPT) has received considerable attention. Severaltruncated shortest processing time (SPT…