Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Volume 3 Issue 3
Table of contents
Justification of Strategic Investments in Flexible Manufacturing Technology
Regine Slagmulder, Werner BruggemanOver the last years traditional accounting methods of investmentappraisal (such as pay‐back period and discounted cash‐flow analysis)have been abundantly criticized for not being…
A Model for Evaluating Manufacturing System Time Performances
Romeo Castagna, Massimiliano GalliIn a manufacturing system, time performances are measures of systemresponse speed to external influences. This speed depends on theresource allocation process (materials…
Strategic Capacity Planning and Production Scheduling in Jobbing Systems
John Hill, Ricardo Costa, Eduardo JardimJobbing production tends to be a relatively neglected area inoperations planning and control partly because of the relativecomplexity of scheduling in low‐volume/high‐variety…
The Need for Parallel Operations‐planning Systems
Kurt RosanderDemonstrates the importance of planning systems and indicates whichplanning systems are suitable for which purpose. Focuses on batchproduction in short series and reports on…
Implementing Just‐in‐Time Assembly Methods in a Medium‐sized Scottish Electronics Company
Robert van der Meer, Norman Lawrie, Sun Moon HwangThere are both “Swedish” and “Japanese”models for the organization of final assembly. Discusses the theoreticaland historical background to these models and the main…