Flexibility and FMS: An empirical analysis

• Main Authors: TOMBAK, Mihkel, DE MEYER, Arnoud
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1988
• 主題: Flexible manufacturing systems; Europe; North America; Product design; Production systems; Testing; Project management; Pulp manufacturing; Uncertainty; Raw materials; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• 在線閱讀: 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...