International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 13 Issue 3

Is Time a Competitive Weapon among Manufacturing Firms?

Enar A. Tunc, Jatinder N.D. Gupta

Considers the recent development of time‐based management as a wayof enhancing the competitive position of a manufacturing organization.Based on a review of literature related to…

A Simulation Model for Scheduling in the Emergency Room

Masood A. Badri, John Hollingsworth

A need exists for a readily usable tool for different schedulingstrategies in an Emergency Room (ER) of a hospital. An ER simulationmodel incorporating the major activities has…

EDI Implementation in JIT and Non‐JIT Manufacturing Firms: A Comparative Study

Snehamay Banerjee, Damodar Y. Golhar

To compete successfully in the global market, firms are adoptingnew technologies and manufacturing strategies. The Just‐in‐Time (JIT)philosophy and Electronic Data Interchange…

Evaluating a Computerized Maintenance Management System

A. Raouf, Zulfiqar Ali, S.O. Duffuaa

Maintenance management consists of an aggregate effort to performmaintenance by effectively utilizing manpower and material through theapplication of standard procedures. It is a…

Situational Factors Affecting Performance‐rating Ability

Biman Das, Donald R. Smith, James K. Hennigan, Richard J. Yeager

The effect of situational factors on the rating ability of 28industrial analysts was determined through the use of rating films. Therating ability was evaluated in terms of rating…

Small Business and JIT: A Managerial Overview

Karen L. Brown, R. Anthony Inman

For the small‐firm manufacturing manager considering thejust‐in‐time philosophy, the literature is relatively sparse. Reviewsacademic and practitioner literature on small…