Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 28 Issue 8

Assessing the IP portfolio of industrial clusters: the case of the Brazilian footwear industry

Gabriel Marcuzzo do Canto Cavalheiro, Mariana Brandao

By examining the intellectual property (IP) portfolio of the largest Brazilian footwear firms, the purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of how manufacturing firms…

Servitization of manufacturing: the effect of economic context

Levente Szász, Krisztina Demeter, Harry Boer, Yang Cheng

Following the identified need for more explicit contextual studies in servitization research, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between and among…

Knowledge integration in manufacturing technology development

Mats Ahlskog, Jessica Bruch, Mats Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze knowledge integration in manufacturing technology development projects required to build competitive advantages.

Examining potential benefits and challenges associated with the Internet of Things integration in supply chains

Abubaker Haddud, Arthur DeSouza, Anshuman Khare, Huei Lee

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to have a huge impact on businesses and, especially, the way we think about supply chain management (SCM). However, there is still a…

Evaluating lean manufacturing barriers: an interpretive process

Linda Zhang, Balkrishna Eknath Narkhede, Anup P. Chaple

Firms have been implementing lean manufacturing to improve their business performances. However, they have difficulties in the implementation due to the many barriers. In view of…

Prioritizing the solutions of lean implementation in SMEs to overcome its barriers: An integrated fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS approach

Amine Belhadi, Fatima Ezahra Touriki, Said El fezazi

The implementation of lean production in small manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) harbors a great deal of barriers on practical, theoretical, financial and organizational sides. In…