Although manufacturing determines mostly the current performance of companies, few companies deal systematically with the issues related to strategic capacity management. Besides decisions on outsourcing and acquisition of resources, this involves triggering process innovation, process development and improving performance by adapting organisational structures. Action research in companies reve...

Operations strategy has been a subject of empirical research for 25 years. We analyzed the outcomes of 33 empirical studies on competitive priorities, published between 1983 and 2007, and identified trends in operations strategy since the early 1980s. At that time, researchers mainly emphasized the importance of flexibility in operations; however, we found that quality has consistently been the...

The growth of China’s economy hinges to a large extent on the ability of the industry to operate more efficiently and effectively in the global supply chain system. China’s manufacturing companies should pay attention to adopt more efficient supply chain technologies to provide better services for their customers. China has initially carried out research and development and industrialization of...

Concurrent engineering is considered as a key concept that enables manufacturing companies to develop new products rapidly with cost saving, without affecting its quality. The purpose of this paper is to report the evaluation of the level of practices of concurrent engineering in Malaysian manufacturing industries. This evaluation was carried out by sending the questionnaire to the appropriate ...

Climate change and unsecured energy supply are topics that become increasingly important in today’s society. Although renewable energy technologies may be a long-term solution, more efficient energy use potentially makes a high and economic contribution to the given challenges in the short term. New CO2 regulations, rising energy prices and environmentally aware customers make energy efficient ...

This paper discussed the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in pharmaceutical product marketing in Nigeria. Data for the study was obtained from 76 pharmaceutical firms in southwest Nigeria which comprised of about 95% of the pharmaceutical companies that were into manufacturing of drugs in Nigeria. The categories of firms surveyed include retail pharmacy, combination...

The purpose of this research is to present an alternative approach for measuring productivity in manufacturing companies. To achieve the research objective, an in depth investigation on the existing productivity measurement and analysis practices of a case manufacturing company has been carried out through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The investigation result has shown that the...

This paper briefly discusses a paradigm shift in manufacturing around the beginning of the 1900s. Implications for Hong Kong manufacturing industry companies and IE education are discussed.

the objective of this research is to identify the characteristics of cost accounting systems (cas) in manufacturing companies located in the state of fars. the research is designed to answer the following questions: 1- what kind of management information systems (mis) are in - use. 2-what information are provided by these systems. 3-how - offen financial information. are issues. 4- what groups ...

Purpose: This study encompasses four cases pertaining to furniture manufacturing industry in India. Manufacturing is essential for our nation and hence companies are studied namely: Spacewood Pvt. Ltd, Choice Furntech LLP, Stanley Lifestyles VK Sofa Makers Pvt.Ltd. There few similarities associations with all of these companies. also uncovers various aspects minute details related pricing, cust...