Flexibility and FMS: An empirical analysis

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: TOMBAK, Mihkel, DE MEYER, Arnoud
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1988
• الموضوعات: Flexible manufacturing systems; Europe; North America; Product design; Production systems; Testing; Project management; Pulp manufacturing; Uncertainty; Raw materials; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5444; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6443/viewcontent/Flexibility_FMS_1988.pdf

It is shown how the concerns of the managers of firms with flexible manufacturing system projects (FMS) differ from those of manufacturing firms without FMS projects. An economic model is developed from which two hypotheses are obtained. The first hypothesis is that firms were investing in FMS to de...