International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 14 Issue 9

Benchmarking for Strategic Manufacturing Management

Michael T. Sweeney

Benchmarking to improve strategic manufacturing management seems to be alogical extension to benchmarking to improve operating systemperformance. This assumption is, however…

Making Best Use of Performance Measures and Information

Ellen J. Dumond

Managing a complex, boundary‐spanning function to maximize itscontribution to the firm can be a challenging task. This research isconcerned with providing management with…

Relational or Object‐oriented or Hybrid? : A Framework for Selecting an Appropriate Database Management System Type in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Setting

Bijoy Bordoloi, Atul Agarwal, Sumit Sircar

The relational model and relational database management systems havebeen the de facto industry standard for organizing and managing data inmost computer‐integrated manufacturing…

Internal Customer Management and Service Gaps within the UK Manufacturing Sector

Ian Chaston

To determine the degree to which UK manufacturing companies have adoptedan internal‐customer‐oriented philosophy, a survey was undertaken usinga modified version of the…

Operations Planning Issues in an Assembly/Disassembly Environment

Louis Brennan, Surendra M. Gupta, Karim N. Taleb

The establishment of disassembly plants and the creation of productdesigns which specifically facilitate disassembly are enablingmanufacturers to carry out item segregation. Item…

Analysing Materials Handling Needs in Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering

Tarun Gupta, Sourin Dutta

In simultaneous/concurrent engineering (SE/CE), many functions areperformed concurrently; however, manufacturing logistics design isseldom considered. Presents an integrated…

Measuring Productivity: A Comment

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf

Presents an elementary version of the Malmquist productivity changeindex. This index measures productivity change using data on inputs andoutputs, but does not require price…