Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are forcing major changes
in the production styles and configuration of manufacturing enterprises. Traditional …

The resource based view of firms is used to explore how information system (IS)
competencies affect process innovation in an organization. Data was collected through a …

Baskerville and Myers (2002) recently suggested that the information systems (IS) field has"
come of age" and that it can now serve as a reference discipline for other fields. In this …

Computers are deeply entrenched in modern manufacturing systems, giving rise to
technologies such as Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Systems and …

Evidence has shown that organizations seldom achieve the advantages offered by
concurrent engineering (CE) practices. This may be attributed to the fact that the concept of …

Companies in either manufacturing or servicing have to be restructured or re-organized in
order to overcome with challenges of the 21st century in which customers are not only …

This paper discusses the significance of the enterprise systems and simulation integration in
improving shop floor's short-term production planning capability. The ultimate objectives are …

The key to the competitiveness of traditional shoe factories lies in whether they can
effectively control the cost problems caused by uncertain risks such as exchange rate …

Um modelo de avaliação da gestão do conhecimento no processo de desenvolvimento de
produtos é proposto, focalizado no relacionamento entre quatro tipos de conversões do …

The need effectively to integrate decision making tasks together with knowledge
representation and inference procedures has caused recent research efforts towards the …