Design and Redesign of a Production Control Model are methods for business process reengineering of manufacturing companies. It is a practical approach to assist companies that want to make the way they control their manufacturing processes a competitive advantage in meeting future market and customer demands. It is based on application of a mixture of techniques and methods from well known con...

Study to explore the effect of customization towards user satisfaction in the daily operation of ERP system .Study carried out in four manufacturing companies. Indepth interviews and surveys used to measure the user satisfaction in the manufacturing companies. The results reveal that exceeding certain level of customization complexity index would reduce the user satisfaction level towards the E...

This chapter presents the rapid prototyping and manufacturing concepts applied as means to reducing time between jewellery designs and manufacturing process. Different processes on jewellery modelling production are presented. Nowadays, the use of technologies as CAD/CAM Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing in high production companies are very disseminated. However, the implementation of th...

Across the globe, more companies are pursuing economically viable green manufacturing in order to efficiently reduce or eliminate pollutants and hazardous substances. Companies are seeing the economic impact of green manufacturing because it creates sustainable development, allows opportunity for re-investment, supports cost saving strategies, and has a positive impact on the bottom line. These...

Studying the sustainability of the financial performance of Chinese listed companies is an assessment of their future development capability and a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of the companies over the past period of time. Based on the financial data of manufacturing industry of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2015, this paper uses the AHP (Analytic hierarchy process) method to...

The literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) has recently analyzed the nature of the firm’s entry mode choice in a foreign market, particularly the choice between a joint venture and a wholly owned subsidiary. Most of these companies use Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) in manufacturing operations conducted in host country. Therefore this paper aims to measure the contribution of ...

Companies must develop and maintain a high degree of coherence among competitive priorities, order-winning criteria, and improvement activities due to the competitive market and customer pressures. This paper presents findings of an empirical survey on manufacturing strategies implementation in new industrialized countries (NICs). Data were obtained from 68 and 54 automotive manufacturing compa...

One of important changes in manufacturing industry is that competition among individual companies has been extended to competition among the manufacturing networks surrounding the companies. Most manufacturing companies participate in various forms of collaboration to enhance competitive advantages in their arenas. In this paper, we introduce a data warehouse system that is designed for a manuf...

ISO 9001 is a Quality Management System (QMS) standard that is widely adopted by many manufacturing companies, including food manufacturing companies. However, the effectiveness of ISO 9001 implementation is still questioned. Given this, this paper aims to propose an instrument that can be used to measure the effectiveness of ISO 9001 implementation in food manufacturing companies. The paper is...