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The manufacturing strategy formation process in small and medium‐sized enterprises

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2002
Reports findings from an empirical investigation into the process of operations strategy formation in six small manufacturing companies in the UK. A two‐stage methodology was used, with three companies being studied in‐depth and three as supplementary cases.
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World class manufacturing: techniques for implementation for small and medium sized enterprises

IEMC 96 Proceedings. International Conference on Engineering and Technology Management. Managing Virtual Enterprises: A Convergence of Communications, Computing, and Energy Technologies, 2002
The range of techniques associated with competitive manufacturing has expanded rapidly since the inception of MRP in the 1960s. Schonberger (1986) integrated these techniques in to the generic term world class manufacturing (WCM). The range and sophistication of these techniques places WCM status beyond the aspirations and competence of many small and ...
H. Farsijani, A. Canuthers
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Lean Six Sigma for small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises: a systematic review

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the most common themes within Lean Six Sigma (LSS) relating to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within manufacturing organisations and to identify the research gaps in the existing literature ...
P. Alexander, J. Antony, Bryan Rodgers
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Customer orientation and operations: The role of manufacturing capabilities in small- and medium-sized enterprises

International Journal of Production Economics, 2019
The discovery and development of new operations and manufacturing routines are marked by some controversy regarding how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from external knowledge inflows.
C. Linder
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Development Trends in Automation; Benefits to small- and medium-sized Manufacturing Enterprises

CIRP Annals, 1980
Summary Pressures of various types, for example, increased pressure of competition, shorter production cycles or increasing labor costs result in increasing demands on small- and medium-sized enterprises with regard to flexibility and profitability.
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Towards digital knowledge transfer in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises

2020
This paper gives an insight into the project “Education 4.0 for SMEs”. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in the hightechnology sector of lightweight-construction are implementing more and more digitization processes for their industrial settings. These processes strongly depend on internal knowledge transfer.
Filipenko, Michael, Hoffmann, Alwin, Krebs, Heike, Loew, Robert, Menner, Marietta, Pistoll, Diana, Priesmeier, Florian, Schneider, Oliver   +7 more
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Implementation of lean six sigma (LSS) techniques for tyre manufacturing in small and medium-sized enterprises

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2023
G. Gokilakrishnan, R. Meenakshi, G. Pradeep, R. Kamalakannan, V. Manivelmuralidaran   +4 more
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A trust transitivity model of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises under blockchain-based supply chain finance

International Journal of Production Economics, 2022
Rongchun Jiang, Yuanjie Kang, Yongsong Liu, Zhihong Liang, Yunlong Duan, Yani Sun, Jialan Liu   +6 more
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Implementation of smart manufacturing in small and medium-sized enterprises

2023
Udai C Jhaa, Abhijeet A Shahadeb
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Innovative strategies for overcoming barriers to technology adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises

Journal of the International Council for Small Business
This study introduces the SME [small and medium-sized enterprise] innovation acceleration framework, a novel approach to addressing technology adoption barriers in Malaysia’s manufacturing and related services SMEs. Integrating Lewin’s three-stage model,
Muhammad Saqib Iqbal, Zulhasni Abdul Rahim, Ahmed Alshammari, Hamza Iftikhar   +3 more
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