Special issue: Innovative approach in technology and manufacturing management

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 14(3/4) 2008

• Modular and collaborative automation: achieving manufacturing flexibility and reconfigurability
• A robust scheduling rule using a Neural Network in dynamically changing job-shop environments
• Six Sigma methodology: an effective tool for quality management
• Supply chain management for virtual enterprises with adaptive multi-agent mechanism
• Capacitating ERP through mathematical programming: a case study
• Study of the EDM process effects on aluminium alloys
• A conceptual model and an information tool for the establishment of production networks based on small and smallest enterprises
• A study on integration of process planning and scheduling system for holonic manufacturing with modification of process plans
• A hybrid-approach to model design and development processes and the evaluation of innovation opportunities
• Improvement through process integration using a simulative, dynamic method
• An assessment of recent developments in the finite element software for modelling manufacturing processes
• Rapid renovation of operational capabilities by ERP implementation: lessons from four Chinese manufacturers
• Optimisation of cutting conditions in hard turning using ceramic-coated and uncoated PCBN cutting tools
• Manufacturing facilities layout design using Genetic Algorithm