Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Dynamics of Maintenance Organization/ Departments

The organisation structures for maintenance vary from company to company depending upon nature of the enterprise/plant i.e. whether electrical, mechanical or chemical; size of the …

Breadth and Integration of IT Infrastructure

The needs and skills required to manage today’s businesses in a global environment are far different than what they were just a decade ago. Clearly …

IT Infrastructure and Practices

IT applications have by now entered almost all the companies, but mostly in an uncoordinated way, without long-term integration plans or automation strategies. Individual departments …

Manufacturing Performance and Competitiveness of Indian Firms

Aspiring to become a World-Class manufacturing (WCM) organisation is a common aim of many manufacturers. However, recent research by authors, such as, Hanson et al. …

TOPP System and Ambite System

TOPP is a new performance measurement system, which was developed by SINTEF in Norway in partnership with Norwegian Institute of Technology (NIH) and the Norwegian …

Performance Measurement P-O-P System

Using the principles of MBO and systems theory, and drawing upon the proven strength of the techniques of multiple attribute decision and goal programming, (Prem …

Generic Manufacturing Strategies for Information Age

Most manufacturing companies are now experiencing rapid and continuous change in their business environment, which can be identified in terms of product change and/or in …

Culmination of World Class Manufacturing

The philosophy and practices of World-Class manufacturing create an enterprise that works in tandem with its suppliers to provide a World-Class response to the voice …

Maskell’s Model of WCM

According to Maskell, World-Class manufacturing generally includes the, following: A new approach to product quality Just-in-time (JIT) production techniques Change in the way the workforce …

error: Content is protected !!