Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 16 Issue 6

Design for quality in agile manufacturing environment through modified orthogonal array‐based experimentation

S.R. Devadasan, S. Goshteeswaran, J. Gokulachandran

To provide a modified orthogonal array‐based model for enabling the researchers and practitioners to exploit the technique, “design of experiments” in an agile manufacturing…

A coordination framework for supply chain inventory alignment

Rajesh Piplani, Yonghui Fu

A traditional supply chain, all too often, is a sequence of weakly connected activities both within and outside the organization and leads to many misalignments. Tackling this…

Reducing bottle‐necks in a manufacturing system with automatic data collection and discrete‐event simulation

Arne Ingemansson, Torbjörn Ylipää, Gunnar S. Bolmsjö

Seeks to present a methodology for working with bottle‐neck reduction by using a combination of automatic data collection and discrete‐event simulation (DES) for a manufacturing…

Change and uncertainty in SME manufacturing environments using ERP

S.C. Lenny Koh, Mike Simpson

The aim of this paper is to investigate how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems could create a competitive advantage for small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). The…

Multi‐plant purchase co‐ordination based on multi‐agent system in an ATO environment

Tsahat Oboulhas, Xiaofei Xu, Dechen Zhan

This paper aims to deal with the problem of multi‐plant purchase coordination in an assemble‐to‐order (ATO) environment, when volume discount schedules are provided by each of the…

Barriers and levers towards knowledge management configurations: A case study‐based approach

Antonella Martini, Luisa Pellegrini

Seeks to discuss barriers/drivers to the selection and implementation of different knowledge management configurations in the process of product innovation.

PCB assembly line assignment: a genetic algorithm approach

W. Ho, P. Ji

This paper sets out to study a production‐planning problem for printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. A PCB assembly company may have a number of assembly lines for production of…