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Who Cares About Job Design? Some Reflections on its Present and Future
Frank KirkmanIn the last 15 years increasing attention has been paid to what has become known as the “quality of working life”. Job design, sometimes known as work design, work organisation or…
Prediction of Plant Startup Progress, Duration, and Lost Capacity
Ross HendersonStartup duration for machine intensive plants using technologically new processes has often been long and unpredictable. Startup is defined here as the time from production of the…
Reduction of the All‐Time Requirement for Spare Parts
Leonard FortuinAn industry which manufactures and sells products that are liable to failure (e.g. TV sets, tape recorders, washing machines or refrigerators), usually has a department for…
Organising for Materials Management
Jeffrey G. Miller, Peter Gilmour, Roland Van DierdonckIt is now quite widely accepted that there are benefits to be derived from an integrated management perspective of the flows of purchased parts, components and raw materials from…
Implementation of Material Requirements Planning: Safety Lead Times
Steven A. Melnyk, Chris J. PiperThis article presents the results of a simulation study of implementation practices for material requirements planning systems. In particular, the role of safety lead times in…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen