Understanding and implementing CIM through BPR

Chen, Rongqiu

doi:10.1108/01443579810241984

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“…This makes it advisable for a company to go along the road to integrated manufacturing progressively, with measured steps, making existing procedures for product design and manufacture their starting point. In fact, there are authors who believe that a company's adoption of the CIM concept should be part of a radical change in the company's conception of its business-following the business process redesign (BPR) approach-and even these consider that, when it comes to the implementation of such radical change, this should be done gradually (Liu and Chen, 1998). Such recommendations could be due to research findings that suggest that the more radical the change, the more limited are the perceptions of those involved of the resulting benefits (Shepherd et al, 2000).…”

Section: Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A view of developing patterns of investment in AMT through empirical taxonomies: new evidence

Dı́az

Machuca

Gil

2003

J of Ops Management

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In line with the theoretical premises of the research, the aim of this paper is two-fold: firstl , to determine whether there are different patterns of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) investment behavior in the Andalusian aeronautical industry that can be associated with different technology strategies, as in other sectors and geographical areas and, secondly, to identify possible similarities or differences from previous research, such as Boyer et al. [J. Operations Manage. 14 (4) (1996) , with a structured interview being held at a later date. A cluster analysis was performed which allowed a taxonomy with three groups of plants to be established: traditionalists, designers and investors. These three groups differ from each other with regard to their AMT investments, industrial activity, size and degree of integration. Differences between the groups in company performance cannot be appreciated. Although the results apparently seem to back up most of the finding of previous works biased to larger companies, they do bring certain aspects into question regarding the explanation for the way the groups are formed. The three critical factors which determine AMT investment in the sector are the company's being of a certain minimum size, undergoing a period of expansion, and type of activity.

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Section: Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%