Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have gained competitive advantage by using Just-in-Time, Total Quality Management, and Information Technology. Cellular Manufacturing (CM) has received less attention from SMEs. This paper reports the findings of a case study of the application of Group Technology in an SME. A framework for the design and implementation of Cellular Manufacturing Systems ...

The increasing competition in global markets forces companies to optimise their manufacturing and logistic processes. Tied supply chains, just in time production are means to reduce costs while shortening the needed “time to market”. Customers are attracted not only by the product prize, but properties like quality and safety. In case of higher prized goods the ability to offer individualised p...

As knowledge becomes a crucial asset to organization’s survival, an efficient knowledge management policy should be set up and should result into an organizational memory. Similarly, an effective eLearning program must be implemented in the organization and exploit the organizational memory to manage competence evolution. In this paper, we introduce a framework to manage organizational knowledg...

Supply chains can be disrupted at both local and global levels. Just-In-Time (JIT) companies should be particularly interested in managing supply chain failure risk as they often have very little inventory to buffer themselves when their upstream supply chain fails. We develop previous research further and present a strategic framework to manage supply chain failure in JIT supply chains. We ide...

The International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) have collected data in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2006. The paper does longitudinell studies on these data focussing on data relevant for Lean Management. We see that there has been an adoption of the Just in Time and Lean issues, but that there is still a way to go.

Introduction According to The National Education Association Research Division (1994), student acquisition of higher order thinking skills is of national critical concern. Increasingly, educational leaders are recognizing that the learning process is of critical importance and understanding the way individuals learn is the key to improving the educational system. There is substantial research w...

Kristina M. Appelt is Librarian/Assistant Professor at Prairie State College; e-mail: kappelt@prairiestate. edu. Kimberly Pendell is Assistant Information Services Librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago; e-mail: [email protected]. Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library...

Cultural content providers face the challenge of disseminating their content to the general public. Meanwhile, access to Web resources shifts from desktop to mobile devices and the wide range of contextual sensors of those devices can be used to proactively retrieve and present resources in an unobtrusive manner. This proactive process, also known as just-in-time retrieval, increases the amount...

The dominance of English as the world language of publication has had a decisive impact on the dissemination of information and innovation across cultures, with a resulting tendency to a standardization of scientific conceptualization. This dominance does not only impact scientific and academic discourse, but also the whole range of professional and technical texts representative of various spe...