Title :
Combining and integrating manufacturing innovations to increase manufacturing performance
Author :
Cordero, Rene ; Walsh, Steven T. ; Kirchhoff, Bruce A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ, USA
Abstract :
This study proposes and tests hypotheses that help explore the usefulness of combining and integrating several widely used manufacturing innovations on manufacturing performance. The manufacturing innovations studied are: technological innovation-using a variety of advanced manufacturing equipment; administrative innovation-using administrative techniques such as total quality management (TQM), cellular manufacturing (CM) and just-in-time (JIT); innovative workers-workers innovative enough to enhance the manufacturing task; and outsourcing-outsourcing specific manufacturing steps
Keywords :
human resource management; manufacturing industries; outsourcing; personnel; production control; quality management; research and development management; stock control; manufacturing innovations; manufacturing performance; technological innovation; Cellular manufacturing; Innovation management; Manufacturing processes; Micromechanical devices; Outsourcing; Performance analysis; Technological innovation; Technology management; Testing; Total quality management;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-890843-06-7
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952355
