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Showing papers in "Journal of Operations Management in 1986"


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TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for cell formation is proposed based on the fundamental ways part families and machine groups are identified and matched within the cell formation process, which can be used to classify descriptive and analytic procedures for the part family/machine group identification problem found in the literature.

288 citations


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TL;DR: This article conducted a study of manufacturing strategy in thirty-nine companies based on questionnaire responses received from manufacturing managers and found that about one-third of the companies appear to have a well-developed manufacturing strategy.

215 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method of assessing the manufacturing strategy of businesses using the responses of both chief executives or equivalents and manufacturing managers and find that executives in manufacturing firms are not sufficiently literate in matters concerning manufacturing strategy.

144 citations


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TL;DR: A relative index that has boundaries of standardization between 0 and 1 corresponding to the lay language usage is developed that can provide valuable insights for reducing relative planning complexities that improve system performance through analyzing relative costs of component parts usages.

126 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of lead-time variability on stockout and stockout risk is investigated. But the authors focus on the U.S. Air Force and show that the true distribution is usually very much skewed to the right and that a normal approximation to it will often yield significant errors.

82 citations


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TL;DR: This article reviews some of the most publicized methods of group formation and analyzes the type of cells that could be formed using these methods and presents an evaluative framework where the relative advantages of each type of production cell are discussed in terms of several strategic and operational factors.

75 citations


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TL;DR: The intent of this article is to provide a simple, robust technique to MRP users who would like to overlap operations and gain some or all of the above efficiencies, and to suggest how to accommodate these difficult practical situations into MRP.

48 citations


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TL;DR: A taxonomy for production management activities is provided and the applicability of expert systems to production management appears to be broadly based, particularly true for what the authors have labeled as “technological” activities.

40 citations


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TL;DR: A simple analytic model is used to study the trade-off between disruption and learning/improvement on a production line and is shown to capture many of the effects of just-in-time mentioned in the literature.

38 citations


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John J. Kanet1
TL;DR: A major finding is that changes to the level of planned lead times have both transient and steady state effects that may not necessarily operate in the same direction.

36 citations


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TL;DR: A branch-and-bound routine to solve subproblems of scheduling transportation activities is developed and designed to assist in making production planning decisions by experimenting with factors such as vehicle capacity limits and sequencing of operations to determine their effect on production time requirements and numbers of load movements.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model structure that builds on this theory and that is directed toward providing insights into the particular issues associated with fixed versus variable cost trade-offs and link production planning with technology selection in a direct manner.

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TL;DR: The article begins with a description of why deliveries are critical in the JIT environment and why vendee pickup from local vendors can be a better alternative than vendor delivery and proposes a model that could be used to implement this concept.

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TL;DR: The article reviews the extant literature concerning the management of factory automation and identifies the gaps in knowledge where research is needed, and reviews the nature of the automation implementation process, and its solution.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the problem of estimating the number of days of a rolling horizon in which demands are known with certainty for a given number of periods in the future (the forecast window M).

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TL;DR: There seems that there is a considerable potential for further application of DSS and ES in FMS.

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TL;DR: To date there is no evidence that an accelerated introduction of robotics will cause any noticeable disruption in the labor force, and a management sensitive to the concerns of its workers should be able to make the transition smoothly.

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model is developed that integrates the preventive and corrective aspects of maintenance planning with the priority and capacity activities of the production planning system, which assists management in scheduling maintenance craft labor for additional efficiency and effectiveness.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of accuracy of planned lead times (PLTs) that are used with a material requirements planning system, and the relative accuracy of three methods of determining PLTs.

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TL;DR: A model that incorporates uncertainty in work load forecasts and staffing flexibility into the decision-making process and examines their interaction is presented, suggesting that increased staffing flexibility reduces the needed equipment investment, since part time staff can be scheduled more conveniently to meet varying work loads.

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TL;DR: A heuristic procedure is presented that generates an efficient frontier representing the risk of delays versus the net present cost of the project, a decision aid for the manager who has to choose the appropriate schedule for the project.

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TL;DR: In this article, a reformulation of the aggregate planning problem is proposed, which more closely agrees with situations frequently encountered in practice, assuming that a firm's production planners want to determine the expected service and inventory levels for a given production profile in the face of uncertain seasonal demand.

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TL;DR: The method discussed is intended to enhance executive attributes by providing a vehicle with which the decision-maker may be proactive before implementing the system rather than being solely reactive after implementation.

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TL;DR: This article proposes a new technique for estimating trend and multiplicative seasonality in time series data that is faster than the RTMA method or regression with dummy variables, and it is competitive with, although a bit slower than, ordinary triple exponential smoothing.

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TL;DR: In this article, a simple model is developed and some results are presented to aid in making inventory retention decisions when there exists uncertainty about whether reorders for a slow-moving item will be received in the future.