Make-to-order (MTO) is becoming vital for meeting ever-changing customer requirements. Growing demand customized items has been linked to a rise in the proportion of MTO businesses. Many sectors and product categories have implemented concept achieved competitive edge sustainable manufacturing. However, case automobile sector, little work carried out, both research practice. In this study, our ...

Manufacturing cycle time (the time that elapses from work order release to completion) affects the cost of developing and manufacturing a product. However, most cost models consider only the setup and processing times and ignore the move times and queue times, which form most of the manufacturing cycle time. This paper discusses the economic impact of manufacturing cycle time. It presents metho...

The order penetration point (OPP) defines the stage in the manufacturing value chain, where a particular product is linked to a specific customer order. Different manufacturing environments such as make-to-stock (MTS), assemble-toorder (ATO), make-to-order (MTO) and engineer-to-order all relate to different positions of the OPP. These may be considered as product delivery strategies, having dif...

In today's competitive market, all manufacturers attempt to improve their maintenance policy in order to decrease the cost of failure and increase the quality of products, but most of these attempts do not consider the role of humans involved in a manufacturing system. Human resources are the main factor in manufacturing that has an undeniable effect on products quality, machines reliability, s...

A so far unused system inherent manufacturing flexibility potential, which is named allocation flexibility, is presented in order to achieve a better fulfilment of logistic targets using autonomous control. The discovery of this new type of manufacturing flexibility demanded for an assessment of already described types of manufacturing flexibility and for development of a new framework of manuf...

Adopting a contingency framework, this paper explores consequences of manufacturing outsourcing and product/process newness for R&D–manufacturing coordination. Based on case-study findings, the following coordination challenges are outlined: accessing manufacturing competence and understanding suppliers’ processes (outsourcing of manufacturing and high newness); receiving feedback from supplier...

modeling, simulation, enterprise modeling, enterprise simulation, Order-toShip process, objectoriented simulation, manufacturing enterprise modeling, manufacturing modeling, objectoriented modeling This paper describes practical problems encountered in modeling and simulating complex system interactions in a manufacturing enterprise. In addition to Production, the interactions of diverse activi...