In this paper we focus on how manufacturing strategies should be measured in an increasingly complex manufacturing environment where the “traditional” quality and productivity measures are not sufficient. The paper discusses and illustrates measures, quantitative and qualitative, that are relevant for manufacturing strategies based on principles from different paradigms. From our case in the au...

This paper experiments application of different heuristic approaches to a real facility layout problem at a furniture manufacturing company. All the models are compared using AHP, where a number of parameters of interest are employed. The experiment shows that formal layout modelling approaches can be effectively used real problems faced in industry, leading to significant improvements.

A manufacturing company, whether in developed or less developed countries, that operates within today’s dynamic and hostile environment (i.e., globalization) is vulnerable. The different functional areas within a company need to be mobilized to confront the threat. Production and operations management, as one of the very fundamental functions within a factory, is required to answer an important...

Mass-customization production (MCP) companies must fight with shop-floor uncertainty and complexity caused by wide variety of product components. The research is motivated by a typical MCP company that has experienced inefficient scheduling due to paper-based identification and manual data collection. This paper presents an RFID-enabled real-time manufacturing execution system (RT-MES). RFID de...

The research study presents, discusses and offers understanding on outsourcing, the most important benefits (advantages) and potential risks (disadvantages) associated with-in. It emphasizes the outsourcing specialized maintenance activities and its role in business success. In this research, a hypothesis were develop whether the benefits of outsourcing maintenance in manufacturing companies ar...

In this paper, a decision problem involving a car parts manufacturing company is modeled in order to prepare the company for an increase in demand. Mixed-integer linear programming was used with the following decision variables: creating a second shift, purchasing additional equipment, determining the required work force, and other alternatives involving new manners of work distribution that ma...

The aim of this study was to combine three different analytical methods from three different disciplines to diagnose the ergonomic conditions, manufacturing and supply chain operation of a baking company. The study explores a summary of comprehensive working methods that combines the ergonomics, automation and logistics study methods in the diagnosis of working conditions and productivity. The ...

Purpose: This case study aims to explain the CSR practices in Mobarakeh Steel Company and examine its transformation process from practicing corporate social responsibility to creating shared value. Design/methodology/approach: Through document reviews, observations, and discussions with managers and employees at Mobarakeh Steel Company (MSC), the required data for the current study was obtaine...

In recent years, markets and supply chains have become increasingly global in nature. Increased competition has driven the need for more efficient and costeffective supply chain strategies and production methods. Firms have effectively used analytical techniques to develop manufacturing and supply chain solutions at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. One such analytical technique ...

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is an established technique to model, analyze and optimize material and information flows in a manufacturing company. VSM does supply a graphical notation, however, it does not provide an automatic execution model. As a result, the flows modeled in VSM need to be mapped to executable ITSystems manually. This paper proposes an approach to enable automatic execution of ...