Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 18 Issue 6

Closed‐loop supply chain activities and derived benefits in manufacturing SMEs

Stéphane Talbot, Élisabeth Lefebvre, Louis‐André Lefebvre

Closing the loop at the end of products' useful life is earning increased attention from industry and academia. The recent or upcoming enactment of regulations regarding the…

Creation of an e‐business requirements specification model

John Dilworth, A.K. Kochhar

This paper aims to describe the creation of an e‐business functional requirements definition model using a case study process.

A generic activity‐dictionary‐based method for product costing in mass customization

Zhaoxun Chen, Liya Wang

Estimating product cost at the design stage, often referred to as product costing, is vitally important in the product configuration process in the mass customization paradigm…

Demystifying data analysis: an alternative approach for managers of manufacturing SMEs

Nicholas O'Regan, Martin Sims

Effective decision making is a crucial activity for manufacturing firms of all sizes. To this end, statistical techniques, such as variance theory, cognitive maps, heuristics and…

Team‐based cellular manufacturing: A review and survey to identify important social factors

Kym Fraser, Howard Harris, Lee Luong

Social factors are an under‐researched but important aspect in the success of manufacturing cells. This paper sets out to investigate the impact and importance of various human…

A framework for implementing cost and quality practices within manufacturing

Ashutosh Tiwari, Chris Turner, Peter Sackett

The techniques that help organisations implement leading edge cost and quality practices in manufacturing operations management are typically disparate and generic in nature…

Application of hoshin kanri for productivity improvement in a semiconductor manufacturing company

Tsung‐Ming Yang, Chao‐Ton Su

The planning approach used is issue‐based planning or formal strategic planning, leading to local optimization and duplicated redundancy. An approach is presented in the rapid…

Editorial

Lynne Baxter

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