Manufacturing companies suffering constant pressure from the market, in a scene of mass customization in large scale, are obliged to become agile and flexible. In last decade appeared several proposals of distributed architectures of production to addresses the market requirements. These proposals are mainly based on the following paradigms: Bionic Manufacturing System, Holonic Manufacturing Sy...

To profit in today’s market, small manufacturers must be efficient and agile to minimise cost and to meet variable market demand. This paper discusses an envisaged Semantic, Ambient, Generic and Extensible framework (SAGE) focused on the manufacturing environment. SAGE is based on the ambient intelligence philosophy which means it is focused on the human actor with the aim of aiding them to opt...

Manufacturing companies are increasingly dependent on external resources and are endeavoring to develop and manage the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) information systems capabilities and strategic inter-firm relationships concurrently and dynamically to leverage external resources for competitive advantage. This paper investigates and theorizes about the correlation between different types ...

In this paper, we address a fluctuating low-volume and high-mix manufacturing system that handles a large variety of products. The incoming products have their own task information imposed by customer demands. In other words, they are not given in advance. Consequently, the system-operating conditions vary with the changes in the given tasks over time. Because of such unpredictable fluctuations...

The aim of this paper is the study of the Brazilian enterprises which are establishing manufacturing plants in foreign countries. It departs from the assumption that the context in which late-movers are emerging is different from the one in which the internationalisation of traditional multinationals took place. Thus, a critical assessment of the existing theoretical approaches was recommendabl...

undoubtedly, more attention is being made in the word service and industries that can be learnt from manufacturing for improving its production out puts and their associated quality and cost. these include such lean production, jit, tqm, and the relationship between buyer, supplier and finally the customer satisfaction. the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between three...

Since the software crisis of the 1960’s, numerous methodologies have been developed to impose a disciplined process upon software development, and to encourage logical, rational and systematic thought. However, the failure of heavyweight methods has given rise to a new breed of methodology known as the agile method. Although many in industry and academia have heralded agile methods as revolutio...

Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM) is especially used for the manufacturing of 3-D complex geometry and hard material parts that are extremely difficult-to-machine by conventional machining processes. In this paper authors review the research work carried out in the development of die-sinking EDM within the past decades for the improvement of machining characteristics such as Material Removal R...

Context: Agility at the business level requires Information Technology (IT) environment flexible and customizable, as well as effective and responsive governance in order to deliver value faster, better, and cheaper to the business. Objective: To understand better this context, our paper seeks to investigate how the domain of agile governance has evolved, as well as to derive implications for r...