Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 21 Issue 1

Exploiting the concept of a manufacturing system part III: Practice and industrial impact of the managing‐by‐projects engineering change methodology

John Parnaby, Denis R. Towill

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the original concept of a manufacturing system has effectively influenced business process improvement (BPI) programmes in…

Risk calculations in the manufacturing technology selection process

Sami Farooq, Chris O'Brien

The purpose of this paper is to present result obtained from a developed technology selection framework and provide a detailed insight into the risk calculations and their…

Supply chain integration systems by small engineering to order companies: The challenge of implementation

Christos Tsinopoulos, Keith Bell

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for overcoming the key barriers to the implementation of supply chain integration systems by small engineering to order (ETO…

Research at the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres: Analysis from the mid‐term review of the Innovative Manufacturing Programme

Rob Dekkers

An extensive mid‐term review in 2005 of the Innovative Manufacturing Programme, followed by sporadic individual reviews in 2006, provided the opportunity to draw inferences from…

Selecting manufacturing business practices for maximum competitive advantage

Jennifer Percival, Brian Cozzarin

The purpose of this paper is to test for complementarities between 26 advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) in Canadian manufacturing plants.

A conceptual framework for prototyping outsourcing in new product development: A knowledge‐based view

Ying Liao, Kun Liao, Robert Hutchinson

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework for prototyping outsourcing.

Using RFID to improve traceability in process industry: Experiments in a distribution chain for iron ore pellets

Björn Kvarnström, Erik Vanhatalo

The purpose of the paper is to explore the application of radio frequency identification (RFID) to improve traceability in a flow of granular products and to illustrate examples…

Measuring the impact of research

Rebecca Marsh

Editorial

David Bennett