Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 28 Issue 5

Intelligent assignment in clusters to enhance collaboration and innovation

Caglar Ucler

Small organizations within profit maximization supply chains form industrial clusters to share resources. They mainly deliver products and services in a reactive manner, where the…

The effect of supply chain management practices on supply chain and manufacturing firms’ performance

Moh’d Anwer Radwan Al-Shboul, Kevin D. Barber, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Vikas Kumar, M. Reza Abdi

The purpose of this paper is to theorise and develop seven dimensions (strategic supplier partnership, level of information sharing, quality of information sharing, customer…

Linking product design to flexibility in an assembly system: a case study

Narges Asadi, Mats Jackson, Anders Fundin

The recent shift towards accommodating flexibility in manufacturing companies and the complexity resulting from product variety highlight the significance of flexible assembly…

The effect of clustering on competitiveness improvement in Hebron: A structural equation modeling analysis

Ibrahim M. Awad, Alaa A. Amro

The purpose of this paper is to map the cluster in the leather and shoes sector for improving the competitiveness of the firms. Toward this end, the study is organized to examine…

Manufacturing systematics and cladistics: state of the art and generic classification

Christen Rose-Anderssen, James Baldwin, Keith Ridgway

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the state of the art of applications of organisational systematics and manufacturing cladistics in terms of strengths and…

Evaluation of recovery configuration options by product utilisation value

Swee Siong Kuik, Sev Nagalingam, Premaratne Samaranayake, Michael William McLean

The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to evaluate product performance of returned products, using four key performance attributes as the basis for improving…