Table of contents
Design for Manufacturability and Time‐to‐Market, Part 1: Theoretical Foundations
Mohamed A. YoussefExamines design for manufacturability (DFM) which has become of aparamount interest to academicians and practitioners as well. Theemergence of advanced manufacturing and…
Frameworks for Understanding Business Process Re‐engineering
S.J. Childe, R.S. Maull, J. BennettIntroduces a number of concepts and frameworks developed during thefirst phase of an EPSRC/CDP grant entitled “A Specification of a BusinessProcess Re‐engineering Methodology for…
The Effectiveness of Personal Computers in Operations Management Education
Ray W. Coye, Peter W. StonebrakerExamines the pervasiveness of personal computers (PCs) in business whichhas encouraged expanded use in the business‐school environment. Althoughthe incorporation of computers in…
A Typology of Production Control Situations in Process Industries
Jan C. Fransoo, Werner G.M.M. RuttenDiscusses the variety of production control situations within processindustries. Following a literature review, a typology is introducedwhich discriminates between two extreme…
Performance Measures: Gaps, False Alarms, and the “Usual Suspects”
Roger W. Schmenner, Thomas E. VollmannUsing a two‐round Delphi process among 92 manufacturing managers fromaround the world, assesses the appropriateness of a variety ofperformance measures. The Delphi process used a…
The SPT Priority Sequence Rule: The Illusion of Efficiency and the Reality of Bottlenecks
Glenn Bassett, Robert ToddDiscusses the most widely accepted operations principle in the job shopworking environment as the shortest processing time (SPT) job prioritysequencing rule. It can be…
What Kind of Activity‐based Information Does Your Purpose Require?: Two Case Studies
Sofia BörjessonActivity‐based approaches, often referred to as activity‐based costingor activity‐based management, have recently gained attention as beinguseful tools for a better understanding…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen