Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 20 Issue 2

Approximate dynamic programming for management of high‐value spare parts

Hugo Simao, Warren Powell

An aircraft manufacturer faces the problem of allocating inventory to a set of distributed warehouses in response to random, nonstationary demands. There is particular interest in…

Weak links in the supply chain: measuring fragility and sustainability

Peter W. Stonebraker, Joel Goldhar, George Nassos

There is significant anecdotal evidence of increasing global supply chain fragility; and, for this reason, robustness and operational sustainability are of notable concern to…

Information enabling production ramp‐up

Sabina Fjällström, Kristina Säfsten, Ulrika Harlin, Johan Stahre

This paper seeks to identify information enabling and supporting production ramp‐up processes, by exploring critical events and the role of information in such events.

Agility through CAD/CAM integration: An examination in an Indian electronics switches manufacturing company

S. Vinodh, G. Sundararaj, S.R. Devadasan, D. Rajanayagam

This paper's aim is to examine the application feasibility of Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) technologies for achieving agility in a typical…

An exploratory survey of current practice in the medical device industry

Julie Eatock, Dorian Dixon, Terry Young

This study seeks to examine the extent to which mainstream tools and strategies are applied in the medical devices sector, which is highly fragmented and contains a high…

A cladistic classification of commercial aerospace supply chain evolution

Christen Rose‐Anderssen, James Baldwin, Keith Ridgway, Peter Allen, Liz Varga, Mark Strathern

This paper aims to address the advantage of considering an evolutionary classification scheme for commercial aerospace supply chains. It is an industry wide approach. By going…

Selection of lean manufacturing systems using the analytic network process – a case study

G. Anand, Rambabu Kodali

Lean manufacturing (LM) has attracted the attention of industries all over the world. Many operation managers have implemented or will be implementing LM because of the benefits…

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Editorial

David Bennett