Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 18 Issue 4

Supplier performance evaluation: lessons from a large multinational organisation

Kathryn Cormican, Michael Cunningham

Progressive organisations are developing proactive supplier‐based strategies in order to integrate key suppliers into their processes and systems. The purpose of this paper is to…

Delivery reliability, manufacturing capabilities and new models of manufacturing efficiency

Roberto Sarmiento, Mike Byrne, Luis Rene Contreras, Nick Rich

To provide a selective bibliography on reported empirical evidence regarding the compatibility/trade‐offs relationships between delivery reliability and other manufacturing…

IRMAS – development of a risk management tool for collaborative multi‐site, multi‐partner new product development projects

B. Kayis, M. Zhou, S. Savci, Y.B. Khoo, A. Ahmed, R. Kusumo, A. Rispler

The purpose of this paper is to develop comprehensive risk management tool, Intelligent Risk Mapping and Assessment System (IRMAS™) with a contingency for multi‐site…

Development of B2B electronic data interchange using XML format: A study of Taiwanese manufacturing

Hsin‐Pin Fu, Tien‐Hsiang Chang, Collin Wang, Kuan‐Yu Hu

To propose some recommendations to improve the model that the Taiwanese Government developed for business to business data‐interchange standards for XML format (DIS_XML) of seven…

Critical success factors for implementing ERP: the case of a Chinese electronics manufacturer

Hong Seng Woo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation experiences of a leading Chinese enterprise. The objective is to provide Chinese…

The impact of organizational characteristics on AMT adoption: A study of Egyptian manufacturers

Salaheldin Ismail Salaheldin

This research seeks to empirically explore and examine the impact of organizational characteristics, i.e. firm size, type of production system, organizational design and type of…

The role of federal government funding on the outreach programs of independent industrial R&D establishments in Canada

Mengsteab Tesfayohannes

Properly nurtured and financially supported independent industrial R&D institutions (IRDIs) can play a pivotal role in converting knowledge into commercially exploitable…

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Editorial

David Bennett