ORTEGA JIMÉNEZ , César Humberto

The present dissertation addresses the topic of reconfigurability from the paradigm of High-Performance Manufacturing (HPM). It especially focuses on the interconnections between production programs (i.e.., technology management, manufacturing strategy, reconfigurable technology, JIT, TQM, HR and TPM), and their effects on multidimensional...

Both the implementation of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) and its integration to current practices (e.g. human resources, information technology, etc.) being used within manufacturing plants are of fundamental concern to fields associated with business administration and management Hence, since specialized literature states RMS's...

Purpose – Using the matching/difference perspective, the purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction fit between a set of managerial practices from manufacturing strategy (MS) and another set from technology management (TM) and the link of this fit to operational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies multiple...

Se estudian dos de los principales programas de producción: Estrategia de producción (por sus siglas en inglés PS) y gestión de tecnología (por sus siglas en inglés TM) de las siguientes dos formas: 1) Testeando y validando los efectos de ajuste de la vinculación entre prácticas de dichos programas; y (2) Explorando el papel que juega el...

Competitive plants focus their efforts on reducing manufacturing costs and waste along their production chains. Hence, manufacturing programs with important practices and methodologies such as lean, JIT, TPM, and Kaizen have been embraced. However, an empirical investigation of simultaneous use of several manufacturing programs representing...

Many production plants are pursuing responsiveness (i.e., timely purposeful change guided by external demands) as one of their main performance priorities and are looking for ways for their responsiveness to be improved. One of the ways that they are currently trying to do this is through the flexibility provided by production practices. On the...

The aim of this study is to identify the conditions of implementation for reconfigurability in summarizing past flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) studies. Meta-analysis will be applied to links between HPM programs and their practices related to...

Nowadays, many companies ignore the point in which lean production significantly mediates and/or moderates along SCM & performance, thus decreasing companies' competitiveness. This paper determines the level of interaction and intermediation where lean reaches its significance level for high performance manufacturing, using structural equations...

The fourth industrial revolution requires that personalization processes of mass productions evolve towards flexible, interconnected, cloud production with greater automation in its machines and operations, called Industry 4.0 (I4.0). However, a homogeneous I4.0 concept, infrastructure state, and other issues are still scarce, making difficult...

La globalización de los mercados y las demandas de los clientes han acelerado la inclusión de la industria 4.0 (I4.0) en la cadena de suministros (CS), siendo un factor importante para mejorar las prácticas del Lean (LSCM) y el Rendimiento operativo de manufactura (RM). El propósito del estudio es analizar de forma empírica si la implementación...

Many industries face open, global markets with requirements for rapid response and low costs. Given the major role that technology plays in business competitiveness, proper technology management (T) in combination with a good production strategy (S), is important to address current challenges. This paper analyzes the nature of T & S...

Each manufacturing plant has to develop its own path to success based on contingencies and on manufacturing practices links. On the basis of the latter, this paper tests the link between two of the most important manufacturing practices areas, manufacturing strategy (MS) and technology, without addressing causality or their combined effect on...

Las fábricas tienen que implementar programas de operaciones, con el fin de no sólo mejorar la competitividad, sino también de mantener una mejora continua que les permita enfrentar los desafíos por los cambios constantes del contexto industrial. Entre dichos programas, la gestión de tecnología (GT) y la estrategia de manufactura (EM) podrían...

Although much of the literature on manufacturing strategy (MS) and technology studies the implementation and impact of these manufacturing programs in isolation, this paper goes further by assessing the joint implementation and effect of these two manufacturing programs on performance, even when some contextual factors are present. Thus, this...

The relationship between technology management (TM) and manufacturing strategy (MS) can be an important factor for increasing operational performance (OP) and contextual variables may affect this relationship. The purpose of this study is to empirically verify whether MS or/and TM improve OP and whether contextual variables influence OP in the...

The effects of manufacturing strategy (MS) and technology (T) on performance have been studied separately, but few studies have examined the relationship between MS and T practices clusters that improve effectiveness when implemented jointly, and even then they do not consider possible congruency between the two. This paper develops a...