Innovations In Competitive Manufacturing

Author : Paul M. Swamidass
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461517054

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Innovations in Competitive Manufacturing is an examination of manufacturing innovations - both technical and knowledge-based. Over the recent past, technology has created dramatic changes in manufacturing. As a result, the book focuses on the use of technology in gaining competitive advantage in global manufacturing. Forty topics are surveyed in the book, organized into thirteen chapters. Each topic is a carefully written account by one or more leading researchers in that area. This is the first systematic examination of the recent innovations in manufacturing strategy and technology. In addition to providing an understanding of these manufacturing innovations, the book underscores the strategic importance of creating and sustaining the technological resources to ensure a stable manufacturing economic base. The book's purpose is to examine the elements that make today's manufacturers successful. Many examples from industry throughout the book will enable the reader to appreciate and comprehend the concepts presented in the article. In addition to the technical and innovative information, implementation issues concerning new ideas and manufacturing practices are explored within the topical discussions. Four in-depth descriptions of real-life cases provide illustration of key principles. The book has been constructed as a reference tool for manufacturing researchers, students, and practitioners. Hence, after reading the introduction `Innovation in Competitive Manufacturing: From JIT to E-Business', any section or topic in the book can be consulted and/or read in any sequence the reader may choose.

Author : Stuart A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351527132

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Stuart A. Rosenfeld presents a timely analysis of the problems the United States and other industrialized countries face as they adjust from economies based on natural resources and goods to economies based on quality of human resources and high-performance, market-oriented organizations. Some of the questions raised include: Will American industry successfully face the competitive challenge of the global economy? Can US manufacturing raise productivity and innovate enough to remain healthy? Have the latest advances in process technology and management practice penetrated the rural industrial base? How can public policy help improve the competitiveness of the crucial manufacturing sector? This book challenges the conventional wisdom in economic development policy. Past state and local industrial policy focused on locational decisions, not on issues of competitiveness. Building the competitive advantage of industry is more important than promoting the competitive advantages of location. Incentives to modernize are more important than subsidies to locate. Competitive Manufacturing uses the rural South, the most industrialized rural region of the nation, to examine the strengths and weaknesses of manufacturing as the basis for economic growth. Using historical analysis, surveys, and intensive case studies, the author analyzes the technological capabilities of rural manufacturing, the factors that influence the decision to modernize, and the effects of technology on education and work. Comparative studies in Denmark and Italy point to new directions for US economic development policy.

Author : Christos Emmanouilidis,Marco Taisch,Dimitris Kiritsis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642403521

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Advances in Production Management Systems. Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services by Christos Emmanouilidis,Marco Taisch,Dimitris Kiritsis Pdf

The two volumes IFIP AICT 397 and 398 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2012, held in Rhodes, Greece, in September 2012. The 182 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the two volumes. They are organized in 6 parts: sustainability; design, manufacturing and production management; human factors, learning and innovation; ICT and emerging technologies in production management; product and asset lifecycle management; and services, supply chains and operations.

Author : Stuart A. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412850551

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"Originally published in 1992 by the Center for Urban Policy Research., New Brunswick, NJ."

Author : Transamerica Corporation
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822015229529

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The Competitive Challenge by Transamerica Corporation Pdf

Author : Roger G. Lewandowski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781482215830

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Beyond Lean Production by Roger G. Lewandowski Pdf

It is estimated that U.S. manufacturers are currently operating at only 65 percent effectiveness in implementing Lean production. Covering the fundamentals needed to be competitive in today’s marketplace, Beyond Lean Production: Emphasizing Speed and Innovation to Beat the Competition provides readers with the tools to help their organizations achieve 100 percent effectiveness in Lean production. Explaining that overseas factories can't compete with U.S. factories in speed of delivery to domestic customers, the book provides the understanding required to add speed and urgency in all that you do in the office and the factory. It explains how to eliminate waste so you can meet and even exceed your customers’ expectations regarding service, quality, and cost. The book is organized into two phases. The first phase, Holding Actions, covers the fundamentals needed to hold your position against the competition until you can implement the methods described in phase II of the book. It presents 12 little-known tools and strategic weapons that you can immediately put to use to improve on your current competitive position. Phase II, The Business Command Center, presents unique and powerful concepts that can be used with the fundamentals covered in phase I. Explaining how to use speed as a competitive weapon, the book will help you to remove the obstacles that interfere with continuous flow manufacturing. It presents the concept of circulatory management that can put a stop to the ever-increasing layers of management with decreasing ownership. By implementing the holding action and the business command center described in this book, you can significantly improve your odds of beating the competition at home and overseas.

Author : N.S. Siddharthan,K. Narayanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317383710

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Innovation and Global Competitiveness by N.S. Siddharthan,K. Narayanan Pdf

In the post-liberalization period, India has slowly but steadily tried to foster innovation to improve competitive efficiency of Indian manufacturing and thus boost global competitiveness of the industrial sector. Foreign direct investment was looked upon as a major source of technology paradigm shift; in recent times, industrial firms have been investing overseas, even in countries to which they used to export, based on their technological capabilities. Firms in Indian manufacturing industries have also attempted to bring about technological upgrades through imports of design and drawings (disembodied technology) against lump sum, royalty and technical knowhow fees, and imports of capital machinery (embodied technology) where the technology is embodied in the capital good itself. This volume comprises empirical contributions on this emerging phenomenon, on a range of issues including the role of R&D; mergers, acquisitions and technological efforts; technological determinants of competitive advantages; the role of small and medium enterprises and regional patterns; technological efforts and global operations; and the role of industrial clusters in promoting innovation and competitiveness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.

Author : Frederick Betz
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040557640

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Managing Technological Innovation by Frederick Betz Pdf

In this new volume, Frederick Betz addresses industrial technology issues from two different perspectives: management concepts and technical concepts, distinguishes between the technology management needs of government and industry, provides a contemporary overview of MOT from one of its original creators, clarifies complex issues and helps the reader visualize future MOT problems, and describes economic development in the historical context of scientific change.

Author : Gunter Lay,Philip Shapira,Jürgen Wengel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642998010

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Innovation in Production by Gunter Lay,Philip Shapira,Jürgen Wengel Pdf

How industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environmental demands, and policy pressures is examined in this book. It draws on the Fraunhofer ISI's unique nationwide survey of technology use and production in Germany. East German as well as West German data is analyzed. Readers will gain fresh insights about the diffusion of new production concepts, the interaction of process and product innovations, and subsequent effects on productivity, employment, work flexibility, and the business performance of German industry. Implications for business strategy, public policy, and ongoing research into technology diffusion are considered.

Author : S. E. Stephanou,Fred Spiegl
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015024957485

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The Manufacturing Challenge by S. E. Stephanou,Fred Spiegl Pdf

Written as a text (with questions after each chapter) and a management guide. Describes traditional and proven management techniques and relates them to the development of successful technological innovations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : V. K. Narayanan
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Technology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060708984

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Managing Technology and Innovation for Competitive Advantage by V. K. Narayanan Pdf

This is the first book to provide an integrated, strategic view of management of technology. Focusing on both theory and practice, it addresses the contemporary challenges general managers face today--e.g., globalization, time compression, technology integration--and explores several strategic approaches for dealing with them, from both a managerial and economic viewpoint. Several integrative themes--T-M matrix, environmental drivers, process of decision making, competitive vs collaborative approaches, and value creation--are followed throughout. Technology Environment; Processes Of Technology Change: Innovation And Diffusion; Technology And Competition; Process Innovation, Value Chains And Organization; Technology Intelligence; Technology Strategy: Collaborative Mode; Appropriation Of Technology; Deployment In New Products; Deployment Of Technology In The Value Chain; Organizing For Innovation; Intellectual Property Strategy; Project Valuation And Financing. For Chief Technology Officers; Directors of Technology, R&D, Product Development, Operations; Chief Information Officers.

Author : Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822004926614

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Restoring Our Competitive Edge by Robert H. Hayes,Steven C. Wheelwright Pdf

Recommends a manufacturing strategy that develops production facilities, uses appropriate management systems, and establishes firm relationships with suppliers.

Author : Christos Emmanouilidis,Marco Taisch,Dimitris Kiritsis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642403613

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Advances in Production Management Systems. Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services by Christos Emmanouilidis,Marco Taisch,Dimitris Kiritsis Pdf

The two volumes IFIP AICT 397 and 398 constitute the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2012, held in Rhodes, Greece, in September 2012. The 182 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the two volumes. They are organized in 6 parts: sustainability; design, manufacturing and production management; human factors, learning and innovation; ICT and emerging technologies in production management; product and asset lifecycle management; and services, supply chains and operations.

Author : Alexander Brem,Joseph Tidd
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848168992

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Perspectives on Supplier Innovation by Alexander Brem,Joseph Tidd Pdf

Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value creation of manufacturers and the increasing transfer of know-how towards suppliers. In multilevel business-to-business relationships, suppliers often have the best or the only access and comprehensive knowledge about the end users. Therefore, suppliers determine the scope of possible innovations, which most companies do not actively use. This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of theories, concepts and especially empirical results on open innovation and the integration of suppliers. For this, authors from all over the world present their latest research results offering fascinating insights into collaborative approaches with suppliers.

Author : Gary P. Pisano,Willy C. Shih
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422187548

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Producing Prosperity by Gary P. Pisano,Willy C. Shih Pdf

Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.