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Assembly line: balancing the State of the Art - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Reviews the techniques of assembly line balancing which when developed by Industrial Engineers, can, by their application give good results. MORE INFO: Assembly line: balancing the State of the Art Reviews the techniques of assembly line balancing which when developed by Indu... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Describes the original development of simple adaptive decision systems devised to provide a cybernetic solution. MORE INFO: The design of cybernetic control systems for manufacturing and distribution Describes the original development of simple adaptive decision systems devis... read article... |
Implementation of a Manufacturing and Sales system - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Case study of the implementation of a total manufacturing and sales system in a multi-division apparel manufacturer. MORE INFO: Implementation of a Manufacturing and Sales system Case study of the implementation of a total manufacturing and sales system in a multi-division ap... read article... |
Production control systems with barcodes - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Outlines the use of bar codes in production control within manufacturing. MORE INFO: Production control systems with barcodes Outlines the use of bar codes in production control within manufacturing. PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management Vol 10 - No 06 - Octob... read article... |
A proper role for consultants - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Explores the role of consultants in the implementation of formal manufacturing systems. MORE INFO: A proper role for consultants Explores the role of consultants in the implementation of formal manufacturing systems. PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management Vol 1... read article... |
To lead from the front - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: What is all the fuss and confusion over lead times Why do MRP systems stand or fall on the accuracy of them and why do other systems not use them? MORE INFO: To lead from the front What is all the fuss and confusion over lead times Why do MRP systems stand or fall on the accu... read article... |
Lead time reduction - better by design - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Improving lead times lies at the design stage rather than the production stage. At the design stage potential problems can be eliminated. MORE INFO: Lead time reduction - better by design Improving lead times lies at the design stage rather than the production stage. At the d... read article... |
Planning to meet the customer demand - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Sales and Operations Planning must be a value added process as it masterminds the total supply chain. This article explores how mass customisation can be used to further improve the flow of material down the supply chain. MORE INFO: Planning to meet the customer demand Sales ... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This is the second part in a series that discusses the business requirements for world class manufacturing control. Meeting those requirements will deliver quality products and service, at medium cost, on time, while providing the means to reduce lead times and investment and to... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This article, the last in the series on mass customisation across the business, looks at analysing failures both during the manufacturing process and after shipment. It will first consider why there is a need for new techniques and then explore the use of datamining software to ... read article... |
Analysing production and early life fails. A case study - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Research Machines PLC is the UK's leading supplier of IT solutions into education. Their production facilities built around 100,000 PC systems in the year 1998/98... MORE INFO: Analysing production and early life fails. A case study Research Machines PLC is the UK's leading s... read article... |
The value of IT in the manufacturing sector - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The aims of the article are: to show that IT has penetrated so deeply into every fibre of the business fabric that its deployment and use have become strategic business, not technological, issues; to encourage senior manufacturing executives to seize control of this vital strate... read article... |
XYZ Defect Control: A Case Study from NSK Europe - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: NSK Bearings, County Durham, produces rolling bearings, vital features in the machines of modern society from cars to computer disc drives.In themselves bearings may look like fairly unexciting lumps of metal, but their accuracy (to 10ths of microns) reveals the true challenge o... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Being someone who has spent most of the last 25 years working mostly on the shop floor, in various areas of manufacturing and distribution, I have written this article, perhaps slightly ad hoc, as a gentle palliative for some of the, in my opinion, current over enthusiasm, for s... read article... |
The ‘On-demand’ Supply Chain - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: World-wide,manufacturing businesses face unprecedented pressures.All manufacturing firms are facing a global recession.Firms have now entered a new era,the ‘on-demand ’ era. MORE INFO: The ‘On-demand’ Supply Chain World-wide,manufacturing businesses fa... read article... |
How Companies Remain Competitive - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Manufacturing in the UK appears to be constantly under pressure. The cyclical effects of the economy has affected businesses since before the Industrial Revolution. In recent decades the downward effects have been most prominent, yet still variable. More recently the criticality... read article... |
Branch news: Yorkshire Branch - Visit to Portakabin - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The first meeting of the Yorkshire Branch for a long, long time was organised by Paul Scott, at Portakabin, York, on 10 November. Unfortunately only a limited number of the members who applied to attend, managed to come, those ‘not showing’ perhaps being put off by t... read article... |
What the Customer Wants: Making at the Pull of the Customer - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the previous articles in this series we have worked through the first three of the Lean Principles, namely understanding customer value, understanding the capability of a value stream and moving from ‘batch and queue’ to making the product flow through the value s... read article... |
Quick Response Manufacturing: ‘When Kanban is Not the Solution’ - Manufacturing control Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the summer of 2002 two articles [1,2] written by Lindsay Harding appeared in Control magazine. They described the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) approach developed by Rajan Suri at the University of Wisconsin in the USA. MORE INFO: Quick Response Manufacturing: ‘W... read article... |
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