Bowman [Bowman, E. H. 1963. Consistency and optimality in Managerial decision making. Management Sci. 9 (2) 310-322.] and others have proposed that regression models derived from a manager's past behavior can serve as a basis for future managerial decisions. This paper is concerned with a...

This paper describes the development and analysis of a numerical taxonomy of manufacturing strategies. The taxonomy was developed with standard methods of cluster analysis, and is based on the relative importance attached to eleven competitive capabilities defining the manufacturing task of 164...

The relative location of facilities in a functional layout has been determined under the criterion of materials handling cost minimization. Recent advances in analytical methods have provided superior solutions within this criterion hut the validity of certain underlying assumptions must be...

Some manufacturing firms, particularly in the high-technology sector, have production processes which are characterized by very low initial yields followed by steady "experience" based yield improvement. Material Requirements Planning literature reveals that MRP implementations are seldom...

Evolution in models for problem solving is inevitable and desirable; as goals are achieved (or problems solved) new, more fundamental or telling, problems are identified leading to model revisions and better problem solutions. The speed of the evolution is dependent on two major factors: the...

The 1990 European Manufacturing Futures survey shows that European manufacturers are doing well. Efforts in total quality management and improvement of deliveries are paying off; the factories have been cleaned up and reorganized. The creation of the post-1992 single market is not expected to...