Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 15 Issue 1

Market responsive manufacturing for the automotive supply chain

Ben Waller

Building to order enables manufacturing to better respond to market conditions. The time lost between changes in customer preferences and product mix disappears and customer…

A cutting sequencing approach to modular manufacturing

Tülin Yazgaç, Rifat Gürcan Özdemir

In this study, a two‐stage algorithm is developed for the cutting sequencing problem in a modular manufacturing system consisting of four basic workstations. Since the flexibility…

An integrated method for designing modular products

Umut Asan, Seçkin Polat, Seyda Serdar

Many recent modular design methods and approaches have focused on the modularization process – decomposition and composition. This paper suggests an integrated methodology that…

An investigation on the readiness of Turkish companies for enterprise resource management

Birdogˇan Baki, Türkay Dereli, Adil Baykasogˇlu

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a game plan for planning and monitoring all of the resources of a manufacturing company. It has been recognized as an effective management…

An organizational information network for corporate responsiveness and enhanced performance

Gülçin Büyüközkan

Today, companies are confronting a changing environment, which has never been faced before. It has been well accepted that with recent technological advances, barriers are…

Decision support system: real‐time control of manufacturing processes

Karel Terblanche Swanepoel

Manufacturing industries are in the midst of a new technological revolution, characterised by the increasing advances and application of information and communication technology…

An integrated model for order release and due‐date demand management

Sameh M. Saad, N. Pickett, K. Kittiaram

In this paper, an integrated model for order release and due‐date management is developed to enhance manufacturers’ confidence in the due‐dates offered to customers. The proposed…

Work load responsive adjustment of planned lead times

S.T. Enns, Pattita Suwanruji

Mechanisms to adjust planned lead times based on current work loads are desirable for time‐phased planning systems. This paper investigates the use of exponentially smoothed order…

A decision support system for machine tool selection

M. Çagˇdaç Arslan, Bu¨lent Çatay, Erhan Budak

Globalization of business, the worldwide competitive economy and the decrease in product life force companies to use new equipments that are continuously introduced to the market…