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Due to the current demands from the market, technological improvements and action of competitors, manufacturing companies are pushed to compete in shorter product development cycles. This poses a great challenge, as the conventional product development cycle is shortened. Hence, companies are forced to introduce some improvement action plans and adopt certain manufacturing operational strategies to...
A considerable demand of real-time business intelligence analysis persuade enterprise application vendors to cope with state-of-the-art computing technologies such as cloud computing and in-memory data management systems, to provide business owners with systems “predicting the future”. A general review and study of enterprise systems' history helps to better understand what such systems will be in...
The product line optimization plays a key role to increase the revenue by satisfying consumers' various needs. While the extant studies have made the approaches from the perspective of consumers, in this paper, we propose a product line design problem from the perspective of manufacturers. The concept of neighborhood is introduced that parameterizes consumers' tolerance on specification differences...
Based on a sample of 1,684 manufacturing companies from the Taiwanese Technological Innovation Survey for the period from 2004-2006, the paper examines the relationship between different types of domestic and foreign based collaborative partners and different levels of product innovation radicalness. A complex network of relationships emerges where the level of innovation radicalness is associated...
Lean and simulation analysis are driven by the same objective, how to better design and improve processes making the companies more competitive. The adoption of lean has been widely spread in companies from public to private sectors and simulation is nowadays becoming more and more popular. Several authors have pointed out the benefits of combining simulation and lean, however, they are still rarely...
Cycle time and capacity management are two of the most important issues for manufacturing companies, particularly in a dynamic business environment. The goal is to meet customer delivery dates while minimizing manufacturing cost. Semiconductor manufacturing involves a large number of process steps, reentrant process flows and long production cycle times. In addition, technological innovation in the...
Transforming SMEs into e-business is one of efforts to improve the competitiveness of SMEs. However, the initiatives of e-business can not be separated from the company's business strategy. This means that the transformation of SMEs towards e-business follows the company's business strategy. However, SMEs often do not clearly define their business strategy, and this strategy is seen as the company's...
Manufacturing costs and tolerance will affect the price and the quality of a product from every manufacturer company. Companies must produce high-quality products with low manufacturing costs in order to keep their products competitive in the market. However, it is difficult to produce a high-quality product with a low manufacturing cost. Companies have difficulties in determining the components to...
The Indonesian Government policy on Local Content Requirement (LCR) for the telecommunications equipment industry has an impact on the growth of Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) Companies in Indonesia. To improve the accuracy of information and efficiency of administration tasks, EMS Companies need an integrated system. It is well-known that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an integrated...
This work considers the fuzzy computing based approach applied to the construction of an intellectual information system for decision support. An algorithm is presented for calculation of an integral hierarchical value of the company's competitiveness on the basis of linguistic assessment of components that characterize such business aspects as the price level, the quality of products and services,...
The gap between scheduling theory and practice has been long known, recognized and studied. More often than not, elaborated scheduling models and procedures are proven to be extremely effective in controlled and synthetic laboratory problems but rarely applied in practical manufacturing scheduling. Real scheduling problems are varied, big and rich in the number of constraints and special characteristics.
A Changeover is the set of operations required to switch from producing one product to another and quite frequently it includes both setup and cleaning operations. Changeovers are especially critical for multi-product environments where flexibility, time and quality are key requirements of the manufacturing system. A range of environmental and economic impacts occur during changeover operations and...
Business executives face several challenges in the era of smart factories and Industry 4.0. They would like to benefit from the investments made in widespread digitization and information procession across business fields. However, running the business became very complex full of human-machine interactions that require new management tools and approaches in order to manage more effectively employees...
Many definitions for operations strategy appear in literature. Yet, after analysing some of these important definitions, there were some common denominators: planning and decision-making. It is through correct operations strategy planning and decisions that organizations achieve competitive edge, and for this reason, the subject is of major importance. In this paper we present a review on operations...
The Demand-Driven MRP (DDMRP) is a recent method focusing on manufacturing and distribution flows that is supposed to manage uncertainties better than traditional Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP). Nevertheless, this assertion has never been scientifically demonstrated. In this paper, a case study is investigated in order to objectively and quantitatively compare these two systems. A Discrete-Event...
This paper describes the evolution of e-business in B-to-B manufacturing small and medium enterprises. Based on the e-business initiatives that were resulted in previous work, this paper explains the empirical evidence through three separate studies that are complementary. First, this paper presents the initial allegations of e-business evolution. Second, a quantitative study is conducted to see whether...
Wastes identification and removing has become a key issue to achieve competitiveness and to survive in the modern manufacturing environment. In order to achieve this goal, several manufacturing paradigms have been proposed. Amongst these paradigms, lean production has increased its importance, and it is now recognized as the most influential one. The concept of lean is based on the dichotomy of value...
The design and development of product service systems (PSS) is a complex process that brings together product, software and service engineering. A fully integrated PSS calls for significant collaboration among the different engineering disciplines along the entire design and development process which can pose several challenges to the development team. Therefore, when developing a PSS, companies should...
The gap between scheduling theory and practice has been long known, recognized and studied. More often than not, elaborated scheduling models and procedures are proven to be extremely effective in controlled and synthetic laboratory problems but rarely applied in practical manufacturing scheduling. Real scheduling problems are varied, big and rich in the number of constraints and special characteristics.
The purpose of our study is to examine whether the design and management of the interfaces and interaction processes between customer and provider in services outsourcing are determinants of the results achieved by the outsourcing company. Following the conceptual framework initiated in the study by Wynstra et al. [11], this study focuses on transport services and hypothesized relationships are tested...
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