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The Importance of User Design in the Adoption of New Information Technologies: The Example of Production and Inventory Control Systems (PICS)
Sue Newell, Jacky Swan, Peter ClarkGiven the importance of information technology in today′s societyan understanding of the process by which technologies are diffusedwithin and between societies is clearly…
Expert Systems and Job Shop Scheduling
Yunus Kathawala, William R. AllenJob shop scheduling has been the focus of much research. Heuristicrules to assist in this endeavour abound in the literature. However,rules leading to the optimum schedule have…
The University in an MRP Framework: The Administration Perspectives
James A. Pope, Marek WermusStudents studying operations management often lack a framework forrelating their experiences to the subject at hand. Describes theuniversity decision making process in the context…
An Empirically‐based Simulation Study of Functional versus Cellular Layouts with Operations Overlapping
Scott M. Shafer, Jack R. MeredithCellular and functional layouts were investigated under a varietyof real‐world conditions via a two‐stage computer simulation study. Inthe first stage, simulation models were…
Manufacturing Cost Modelling for Electrical Interconnections
N.S. Ong, L.E.N. Lim, K.T. YeoThe cost of manufacturing a product must be estimated accurately atthe concept design stage to help decision making. Examples of suchdecisions are the economic feasibility of a…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen