Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Advanced manufacturing technologies provide a great potential for improving manufacturing performance to compete in the global markets. Proper decision making in pre-implement and implementation of Robot technology as one of the types of AMT plays an importa...

This paper concentrates on the planning requirements for the adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) in order to safeguard their successful implementation. Using the Cypriot manufacturing industry as a case study information is extracted regarding the implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies. The research results are analyzed and are used in the development of a plann...

Today in order to stay in businesses and prosper, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are seeking higher electiveness and competitiveness across the entire cycle of marketing, product design, manufacture, test and sales. SMEs play an increasingly important role in all aspects of competitiveness: both products and production techniques, but also management methods, the organization of the firm a...

The escalating complexity and competitiveness in the market place require firms to constantly review and modify their strategy and the way they operate in order to survive and sustain their market positions. For manufacturing firms, adoption of more advanced manufacturing techniques is necessary for these firms to remain competitive and achieve the desired performance. In this advanced environm...

In order to improve the level of the university education, the study model of specialized courses is discussed using the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle and Six Thinking Hats. Teaching problems existing in the teaching process and those factors that affect the teaching quality is analyzed, PDCA cycle and Six Thinking Hats and the teaching process is combined. Research show, the teaching quality ...

The objective of this study is to empirically identify various alignments strategies through various adoption levels between advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) applications and e-commerce settings in supply chain context, and then test what alignment strategies that will have significant influence on supply-chain coordination outcomes. Based on the test result, we can justify the optimal a...

The decision process that organisations utilise when evaluating technology investment opportunities is a complex and even political process; however, the correct decision can provide the organisation with considerable operational and competitive benefits. The research presented in this paper presents the findings of a postal survey of the benefits provided by technology investments to large Ger...

Technology selection is an important part of management of technology. Recently Karsak and Ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology for selection of the best Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) candidates based on a number of attributes. However, Amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...

A heated debate continues over the need for trade-offs in operations strategy. Some researchers call for plants to focus on a single manufacturing capability and devote their limited resources accordingly, while others claim that advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) enables concurrent improvements in quality, cost, flexibility, and delivery. Yet there is little empirical evidence for or agai...

technology selection is an important part of management of technology. recently karsak and ahiska (2005) proposed a novel common weight multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) methodology for selection of the best advanced manufacturing technology (amt) candidates based on a number of attributes. however, amin et al. (2006), by means of a numerical example demonstrated the convergence difficul...