Japanese Manufacturing : Strategy and Practice

Swp 15/98 Enablers and Inhibitors to Manufacturing Strategy

Two radically different views of manufacturing strategy are that it should be developed@om the ‘top down ’ by planned integration with corporate strategy, or alternatively, that it should be developed from the ‘bottom up ’ by focusing on improved performance by the elimination of waste. Using comparative, case-based research, this paper casts some light on these opposing views through quantitat...

Alternative paradigms for manufacturing strategy

Introduction Manufacturing strategy as a concept and an area of study and practice has been growing for the last 30 years. However, as it has grown the clarity of manufacturing strategy has decreased as different views and different approaches have emerged. This article will briefly review the history of manufacturing strategy, then it will review the field from several different perspectives. ...

Manufacturing strategy: a pictorial representation

Introduction A chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) description of his/her manufacturing strategy, although honestly expressed, may be incomplete, inaccurate or both; the manufacturing director’s overhead transparencies might put a gloss on the facts; and a researcher’s observation of shopfloor practice may lack important current and historical context. Fully identifying and representing a firm’s ...

Quality Assurance and Good Manufacturing Practice in Respect of Plasma Fractionation

تعیین استراتژی بهینه تولید با استفاده از مدلسازی ساختاری تشریحی اصلاح ‌شده و مدل برنامه‌ریزی خطی

  To construct and understand the fundamental of relationships among elements in complicated systems on the base of expert(s) opinions, using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) methodology is beneficial. In this paper, for considering consistency rate of expert(s) and obtaining hierarchy of elements (without any loop), a modified ISM method is proposed . These experts have agreement to each...