A new manufacturing system, Seru Manufacturing Systems(SMS), has been widely applied in Japanese electronic industry. Through comparing with other three similar manufacturing systems, the organizational characeristics of SMS were discussed from three levels based on case studies, i.e., manufacturing system, manufacturing strategy, and industry application. The results show that SMS can satisfy ...

The main purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate dimensions of Advanced Manufacturing Systems (AMS) using SWARA and COPRAS_G Integration in the automotive industry. First, according to the research literature and 5 automotive industry experts’ opinion, six criteria include flexibility, productivity, inventory, operating cost, responsibility and reconfiguration indicated and weighted by...

Industry 4.0 is the called 4th technological revolution, where digital and physical marketplaces and manufacturing technologies converge to enable smart manufacturing and factories of the future. This paper presents an overview of a representative set of marketplace platforms available to support supply chain processes underpinning Industry 4.0. We develop a gap analysis of existing marketplace...

Lean manufacturing is an important aspect used by the current companies to compete in the market. The high cost of production in many sectors has forced companies to offer their products at high prices thus failing to attract customers. Small and medium sized enterprises in Indian electronic and electrical industry face high competition challenges from international companies thus, application ...

In order to keep up with the flexibility and cost-efficiency requirements, the manufacturing industry has begun a transformation process towards a service-oriented production approach. This approach is in line with the cloud manufacturing paradigm that applies established concepts from cloud computing to the manufacturing domain. Although the cloud manufacturing paradigm provides promising conc...

Economies of Scale in European Manufacturing Revisited* We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen European manufacturing industries in France, Germany, Italy and the UK are analysed. We focus on economi...

the main purpose of this paper is to present methods and recent development in the literature of intra industry trade (iit) measuring. the case study also is carried out for iranian manufacturing industries during time period 1997-2003. for this, iran's foreign trade data was collected, processed, and then used to estimate iit indices with respect to recent literature developments in iit m...