M firms are increasingly using advanced enterprise-level information systems to coordinate and synchronize externally oriented functions such as marketing and supply chain and internally oriented activities such as manufacturing. In this paper, we present a model of manufacturing performance that simultaneously considers the effects of a firm’s integrated IS capability in conjunction with inter...

The Computer-Aided Manufacturing Engineering (CAME) program is developing a number of integrated software toolkits for design, manufacturing engineering, and production operations [1]. One of these toolkits is the Manufacturing Engineering ToolKit (METK) [2]. The goals of the METK project are 1) to develop generic interface specifications, data structures, information models, and data validatio...

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This paper presents a new mathematical model for integrated dynamic cellular manufacturing systems and production planning that minimizes machine purchasing, intra-cell material handling, cell reconfiguration and setup costs. The presented model forms the manufacturing cells and determines the quantity of machine and movements  during each period of time. This problem is NP-hard, so a meta-heur...

For expediently integrating service partners and software modules to enhance the openness and service level of the manufacturing integrated service platform, the browser/server/database architecture is presented as its software architecture, on this basis, its function structure is divided into preponderant manufacturing resource sharing system, intelligentized and independent design system for...

The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...