Special issue:Strategic issues of Japanese manufacturing

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 18(4) 2009

• Proposal and demonstration of V-MICS-EM by digital engineering: robot operation and maintenance by utilising visual manual
• A product development process for linked management: application cases of electrical home appliance products
• Perspectives on industrial clusters in the Japanese biotechnology industry
• Strategic planning of skill training for manufacturing
• Factorial representation in scheduling problems
• TPS-QAS, new production quality management model: key to New JIT – Toyota's global production strategy
• Model analysis of the economical meaning for regional-independent production
• Sensitivity analysis of an economic order quantity for dynamic inventory models with discrete demand