Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 101 Issue 3

Object‐oriented database systems in manufacturing: selection and applications

Qingyu Zhang

As manufacturing systems change from island of automation to enterprise‐wise integration, object‐oriented database and database management systems have many superior features to…

Just‐in‐time manufacturing in Ghana

Kwasi Amoako‐Gyampah, Vidyaranya B. Gargeya

Just‐in‐time (JIT) production has received a great deal of attention worldwide in the last couple of decades. Most research has examined the effects of the JIT philosophy and…

Benefits of information sharing with supply chain partnerships

Zhenxin Yu, Hong Yan, T.C. Edwin Cheng

The power of information technology can be harnessed to help supply chain members establish partnerships for better supply chain system performance. Supply chain partnerships can…

Assessing the quality of computer print magazines: practitioners’ versus academics’ perceptions

Chang‐tseh Hsieh, Ming‐te Lu, Binshan Lin

Non‐academic information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) related magazines have been commonly used by the IS practitioners as main sources to obtain information about…

A QFD based methodology for evaluating a company’s PDM requirements for collaborative product development

Rajeev Kumar, P.S. Midha

CAD, CAM, CAE and CIM systems with their ability to quickly generate and change product data have strained the conventional systems used to manage data. As a result, the time…

GloStra – a hybrid system for developing global strategy and associated Internet strategy

Shuliang Li, Barry J. Davies

An intelligent hybrid system, called GloStra (developed by the author), for developing global marketing strategy and associated Internet marketing strategy is reported in this…