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In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been
aggravated by the change from a vendors' market to a buyers'
market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market
segmentation and rapid progress in product and process
technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an
increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever
more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production
management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have
been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond
these more technical, organisational and information technology
related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be
considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human
resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do
partners in a global network only operate according to predefined
process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process
models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the
users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences
are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are
separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes
affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the
employees.
Strategic Decision Making in Modern Manufacturing introduces and
explains the AMBIT (Advanced Manufacturing Business ImplemenTation)
approach, which has been developed to bridge the gap between
strategic management considerations and the operational effects of
technology investment decisions on the manufacturing organisation,
so that the likely impact of new manufacturing technology and/or
programme implementations can be evaluated, anticipated and
accurately predicted. The AMBIT approach focuses specifically on
the non-financial aspects of such investment decisions and offers
an approach that allows a manager, or more frequently a management
team, to understand the impacts of a new technology or a new
programme on the manufacturing organisation in terms of
manufacturing performance.
Just as no man is an island, so no business can operate without
being part of a network of businesses proactively collaborating and
sharing information for mutual success. This book presents some of
the latest thinking on collaborative systems by leading experts in
the field.
In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been
aggravated by the change from a vendors' market to a buyers'
market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market
segmentation and rapid progress in product and process
technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an
increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever
more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production
management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have
been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond
these more technical, organisational and information technology
related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be
considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human
resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do
partners in a global network only operate according to predefined
process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process
models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the
users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences
are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are
separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes
affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the
employees.
The business environment throughout the world is currently going
through rapid and far reaching change. They are analysing their
business processes and scrutinising ways to make their systems more
streamlined and competitive in order to meet the challenges posed
by the Global Economy. Forming close alliances and integrating the
operational processes with the key suppliers and customers is the
mantra every one is embodying. In parallel and to support this
shift in strategic focus developers are putting forward new
concepts in the emerging Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) to make the integration of processes among
collaborating enterprises as seamless and secure as possible.
Together these developments have yielded a tremendous amount of new
knowledge and will continue to offer us new challenges and
opportunities well into the future. This book brings together the
opinions of a number of leading experts, analysts, academics,
researchers, vendors and industrial practitioners from around the
world who have worked extensively in the area of collaborative
manufacturing. Through individual chapters in this book, authors
put forward their views, approaches and new tools. Still, other
authors present a glimpse of the nature of solutions that may be
developed in the near future. This book is loosely structured to
allow chapters which address common themes to be grouped together.
In these chapters, the reader will learn aU the key issues
currently being addressed in production management research and
practice throughout the world.
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