An introduction to Chinese manufacturing research institutions

Zhou, Chi; Li, Z.

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“…Chinese firms are faced with deteriorated management efficiency as they are breaking away from former state‐controlled and traditional mass production and transforming into market driven enterprises (Chen et al , 1997). The flexibility of manufacturing and advanced manufacturing research are becoming more and more important in China (Zhou and Li, 2005).…”

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Lean manufacturing performance in China: assessment of 65 manufacturing plants

Taj

2008

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the adaptation of lean production and assess its current state of practice in selected plants in electronics, telecommunication, wireless, computer, food/beverage, garment, pharmaceutical, chemical, petroleum, printing, A/C and heating, and a few others in China.Design/methodology/approachAn assessment tool is used to evaluate actual manufacturing practice related to key areas of inventory; team approach; processes; maintenance; layout/handling; suppliers; setups; quality; and scheduling and control. Manufacturing executives at manufacturing plants answered 40 questions in the assessment. Each response in the assessment is scored and a total score for each plant is recorded by adding average scores for all areas.FindingsApplication of lean production in China started in the late 1970s in the automotive industry, much earlier than by American and European manufacturers. The results of assessments show that the petroleum industry is in lead among all industries, followed by computer, telecommunication/wireless, and electronics industries. The findings from lean production system design‐related questions show low scores in layout design, volume/mix flexibility, setup, visual factory, and point‐of‐use delivery. However, plants earned high scores in materials flow, scheduling/control, on‐time delivery of finished goods, and overall defect rate. The findings have some similarity with recent studies about Chinese manufacturing firms' performance and competitiveness.Research limitations/implicationsResearch findings are from some selected manufacturing plants in China and they should not be interpreted as an indicator of that particular sector in China.Originality/valueThis study investigates actual lean manufacturing practice and performance in Chinese plants.

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Lean manufacturing performance in China: assessment of 65 manufacturing plants

Taj

2008

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management

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Innovation management of three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology: Disclosing insights from existing literature and determining future research streams

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Opazo‐Basáez

Vlačić

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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A platform for optimisation in distributed manufacturing enterprises based on cloud manufacturing paradigm

Valilai

Houshmand

2014

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

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The synergy of fundamental factors like changes in governmental policies, global expansions of the manufacturing industries and improvements in technology related to reliability of manufacturing information flow have created the global manufacturing revolution in the first years of the twenty-first century. Although the concept of global manufacturing enterprise has created benefits and opportunities for today's manufacturing enterprises, it has enforced enterprises to endure costs to adopt the global manufacturing solutions. Besides, considering the researches aimed to enable the global manufacturing paradigm, there is still a need for efficient solutions to fulfil the global product development requirements. In this paper, the essential aspects and requirements of a global manufacturing approach are studied. Considering the essential requirements such as integration of manufacturing operations over the globe, maintaining manufacturing networks in distributed manufacturing enterprises, collaboration of global manufacturing agents within the networks and enabling the optimal solution systems in global manufacturing enterprises, the paper reviews the dominant researches for the global manufacturing solutions. Considering the new paradigm for global manufacturing called cloud manufacturing discussed in the latest works of the authors, the paper proposes a new manufacturing platform called STRATUS Cloud for today's global manufacturing. The architecture of STRATUS Cloud is discussed based on the cloud manufacturing paradigm to fulfil the requirements of global manufacturing platform especially in enabling the global manufacturing for adoption of optimal solution systems. The STRATUS Cloud inherits capabilities from the recent authors' researches such as collaboration support of distributed manufacturing agents over the globe and the integration of the manufacturing operation based on the STEP standard while extending its application and fulfilling STEP's limitations. The STRATUS Cloud proposes a contribution for enabling the adoption of the optimal solutions through manufacturing processes. This contribution is achieved via a manufacturing cloud reconciled with the proposed platform structure. The capabilities of the STRATUS Cloud to enable optimisation systems are discussed in different case study scenarios.

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An introduction to Chinese manufacturing research institutions

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Lean manufacturing performance in China: assessment of 65 manufacturing plants

Lean manufacturing performance in China: assessment of 65 manufacturing plants

Innovation management of three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology: Disclosing insights from existing literature and determining future research streams

A platform for optimisation in distributed manufacturing enterprises based on cloud manufacturing paradigm

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