Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 19 Issue 2

Transferring appropriate manufacturing technologies for developing countries

Yasemin Claire Erensal, Yıldız Esra Albayrak

This work attempts briefly to identify factors affecting the success of technology transfer in order to reduce the potential of incompatibilities in respect to micro‐ and…

Analysing the effect of flexibility on manufacturing systems performance

Adil Baykasoğlu, Lale Özbakır

In today's very competitive, dynamic and unpredictable manufacturing environments it is critical to improve manufacturing performance in order to be able to compete…

An integrated framework for ISO 9000 motivation, depth of ISO implementation and firm performance: The case of Taiwan

Woan‐Yuh Jang, Ching‐I Lin

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine whether business can benefit from ISO 9000, and examines how motivation impacts the depth of ISO 9000 implementation and how…

Lean manufacturing performance in China: assessment of 65 manufacturing plants

Shahram Taj

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the adaptation of lean production and assess its current state of practice in selected plants in electronics, telecommunication…

Analysis of cellular manufacturing systems in the presence of machine breakdowns: Effects of intercellular transfer

Mounir Elleuch, Habib Ben Bacha, Faouzi Masmoudi, Aref Y. Maalej

The aim of this paper is to illustrate a solution that can be used to reduce the severity of breakdowns and improve performances in the cellular manufacturing (CM) system with…

Stochastic analysis and design of CONWIP controlled production systems

Mohammad D. Al‐Tahat, Ibrahim A. Rawabdeh

This paper aims to present a model of a multi‐phase multi‐product manufacturing system considering a CONstant work‐in‐process (CONWIP) control mechanism and using continuous‐time…

Finite scheduling of collaborative design and manufacturing activity: a Petri net approach

Salleh Ahmad Bareduan, Sulaiman Hj. Hasan, Saparudin Ariffin

This paper aims to present an approach of utilizing Petri net (PN) to model and schedule collaborative design and manufacturing activities at a cyber manufacturing centre (CMC).

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