This paper investigated the critical role of knowledge sharing (KS) in leveraging manufacturing activities, namely, integrated supply management (ISM) and new product development (NPD), to improve business performance (BP), within the context of Taiwanese electronic manufacturing companies. The research adopted a sequential mixed method research design, which provided both quantitative empirica...

The research seeks to understand how effectively Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are able to meet the decision support requirements of manufacturing companies in the UK, with a particular interest in how the effectiveness of support differs based on production strategy. As a result, survey responses have been divided into Make-To-Order (MTO) and Make-To-Stock (MTS) companies. We have...

This study examines competencies of Human Resource (HR) professionals in the manufacturing companies of Malaysia. The Human Resource Competency Survey (HRCS) model is used in this study. The competencies that are examined in this study are business knowledge, strategic contribution, HR delivery, personal credibility and HR technology. All these competencies will be tested whether or not they ar...

Change monitoring and management become an unavoidable necessity for companies in order to stay competitive in global market.This requires thorough handling models for change management to attain a systematic approach. In this paper, monitoring models for innovation and changes in manufacturing environments are investigated using two collective intelligence approaches. The first approach is bas...

In the context of a global competitive environment, industrial companies have to pursue continuous performance improvement, leading to the popularity of Lean Manufacturing throughout the world. Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is considered the relevant performance measurement tool, which is able to take into account a machine’s availability, performance and quality. Therefore, many firms ...

Supply chain planning in manufacturing companies is approached in this paper through empirical case-study research. The target was to chart how different types of manufacturing companies are specifying their future volumes and to identify the type of collaborative planning they are implementing with customers and suppliers. Based on interview study results, a framework is presented to explain h...

Tablet manufacturing provides quite a good example and is also the process where many pharmaceutical companies are choosing to pilot continuous manufacturing. In a traditional batch approach, tablet manufacturing is really a series of disconnected single unit operations, installed in separate rooms, with product waiting to be released to the next process step in another room. The equipment is i...

The annual (year 2001) survey of manufacturers conducted by IndustryWeek magazine, and reviewed by a national engineering society, indicates that the average manufacturing company is "just beginning its journey to adopt lean strategies". The review confirms there is a small but definite increasing trend in the movement towards the adoption of lean manufacturing techniques within U.S. plants. Ho...

Introduction In a world that is rapidly moving towards faster, higher quality production of products, the focus has been on manufacturers that produce products in a repetitive or process mode of operation. The good news is that progress has been tremendous in those companies. The bad news is that in the job shops of the world, it is virtually business as usual. Manufacturing in the United State...