Computer Integrated Flexible Manufacturing: Organizational, Economic, and Strategic Implications

Goldhar, Joel D.; Jelinek, Mariann

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“…The concept of industrial automation is widely used by manufacturers in automobile, electronic and electrical, chemicals and steel industries, for a better plant efficiency or a lower unit cost of production. Countries like USA, Europe and Japan adopted automation strategy to improve their competitiveness, in terms of cost, quality, flexibility, and delivery (Hayes & Jaykumar, 1988;Goldhar & Jelinek, 1985;Parthasarthy & Sethi, 1992).…”

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Technology Strategy and Firm’s Revenue Growth: Empirical Evidence of Malaysian Industrial Automation Industry

Muhammad¹,

Jantan²,

Keong³

2009

IJBM

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Technology strategy was found by many researchers as a way to improve competitiveness. Failure to develop and integrate technology strategy and business strategy is a major contributing factor to the decline of firm's competitiveness. Many literatures also indicated that technology strategy played an important role in determining firm performance in technology-driven industries such as industrial automation company. However, most of the previous studies have generally focused on the structure-conduct-performance theory which emphasized greatly on external factors (i.e market condition and competitors) to link strategies to firm performance. Very few studies were found to link strategies with the internal factors. Thus, the present study was undertaken to relate strategic view and resource-base view theory to the firm performance of industrial automation company looking at technology selection, technology competence, technology posture and the moderating effect of the resource deployment. The empirical result based on 61 Malaysian industrial automation company found that, technology selection has positive impact towards revenue growth (measuring firm's performance). However, technology posture was found to be a negative predictor towards revenue growth and technology competence has no significant impact on revenue growth. Resource deployment on the other hand was identified to only moderate technology selection and technology posture but not technology competence.

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Technology Strategy and Firm’s Revenue Growth: Empirical Evidence of Malaysian Industrial Automation Industry

Muhammad¹,

Jantan²,

Keong³

2009

IJBM

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“…The 'simplicity' underlined by Schonberger was a disruptive message at a moment when a number of scholars (e.g. Goldhar 1985) and practitioners in the western world were promoting computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), an approach highly based on information technologies [e.g. Material Requirements Planning (MRP)] for production planning and control and automation (including flexible automation) in manufacturing.…”

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The Impact of the Just-in-Time Approach on Production System Performance: A Survey of Italian Industry. A Review and Outlook

Filippini

Forza

2016

A Journey Through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research

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Just in Time (JIT), as a wide philosophy to manage and control production activities, has dominated the way industry is run in the last decades. In the original paper the authors performed an early study on this subject, recognizing the disruptive potential of this approach and proposing a solid framework for its analysis. From the one hand, they distinguished the overall managerial approach and philosophy from the specific techniques used to implement it. While the general approach is long lasting and widely generalizable, the specific techniques might be more contingent. On the other side, they studied the impact of JIT on two set of performance dimensions, the operating conditions and the external performance of the production system. Through a wide empirical evidence of Italian companies in the metalworking industry, the authors were able to show the ability of JIT to shift the trade-off between productivity and service. The commentary underlines that, although results are today outdated, the framework proposed by the paper is still very useful to study the evolution of JIT and its impact on performance. Also, the paper is valuable for its balance between scientific rigour and practical relevance.

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“…Madu and Georgantzas (1991) identify seven technology dimensions after an extensive review of the literature; flexibility, quality, dependability, inventory management, information processing, direct labour reduction, and cost. Although maintaining competitiveness is implicit in these papers, Goldhar and Jelinek (1985), Porter and Miller (1985), and Diaz (1986) show that competitive advantage should be the basic concern when Downloaded by [University of Glasgow] at 23:24 03 January 2015 introducing new information technologies. Therefore, it should be explicitly considered as the company's objective in adopting new technologies.…”

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A strategic decision model for the selection of advanced technology

Kuei

Lin

Aheto

et al. 1994

International Journal of Production Research

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his paper introduces models for the selection of advanced technologies. It is based on the concept that technologies are mutually dependent. As such, higher productivity could be realized by simultaneously selecting dependent technologies. Synergistic benefits are realized if such technologies are selected. This paper, therefore, uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and an adjusted priority method to evaluate and rank technologies. A greedy heuristic algorithm is then used to allocate resources to the different technologies.

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Computer Integrated Flexible Manufacturing: Organizational, Economic, and Strategic Implications

Cited by 91 publications

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Technology Strategy and Firm’s Revenue Growth: Empirical Evidence of Malaysian Industrial Automation Industry

Technology Strategy and Firm’s Revenue Growth: Empirical Evidence of Malaysian Industrial Automation Industry

The Impact of the Just-in-Time Approach on Production System Performance: A Survey of Italian Industry. A Review and Outlook

A strategic decision model for the selection of advanced technology

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