Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Volume 4 Issue 4
Table of contents
Managing Product Quality in New Zealand Firms
Tom W. BatleyA survey was carried out recently in New Zealand manufacturingfirms to identify typical quality management policies and operatingpractices and to determine changes in recent…
Combining Activity‐based Costing and Process Mapping: A Practical Study
B.M. Amsler, J.S. Busby, G.M. WilliamsTraditional costing systems suffer from a number of problemsbecause of the way in which they allocate overheads: product costs havearbitrary components; managers lack information…
The Application of Computer Simulation in Manufacturing
Stewart RobinsonIn manufacturing, the use of computer simulation has led tosignificant benefits: risk reduction, greater understanding, operatingcost reduction, lead time reduction, faster plant…
Concurrent Engineering Deployment: A Virtual Reality Approach
Ahmad K. Elshennawy, Ganesh M. Krishnaswamy, Mansooreh MollaghasemiAims to develop an approach to deploy practically a concurrentengineering environment. Deployment here signifies a combination of twoimportant elements: translation from one…
Integration of CAD/CAM and Spreadsheet Data Processing
Chan Choy Peng, Keith RidgwayDescribes the development of an integrated computerized engineeringdatabase and CAD/CAM system at Presto Tools Ltd, Sheffield, UK.Following an examination of the existing computer…