The Strategic Advantages of the Factory of the Future

Kotkin J. , “Made in USA: The Case for Manufacturing in America,” INC, 7 (March 1985): 48–68.

Nichols J.D. , “How Customer Needs are Shaping the ‘Factory of the Future,”’ Management Review, 73 (December 1984): 29, 35.

Wilson J.W. , “Intel's Mad Dash to Keep up with Japan,” Business Week, August 12, 1985, pp. 25, 28.

Kotkin , op. cit.

Meredith J. , “Peerless Laser Processors,” case study funded by the Cleveland Foundation under a grant entitled Management Issues in High-Technology Manufacturing Industries, December 1984.

For example, see Flax S. , “An Auto Man Tunes Up Warner-Lambert,” Fortune, March 4, 1985, pp. 70–78.

For further explanations of the hardware, see Groover M.P. , Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980).

Refer to Hyer N.L. Wemmerlov U. , “Group Technology and Productivity,” Harvard Business Review, 62 (July/August 1984): 140–149; or Suresh N. C. Meredith J. R. , “Achieving Factory Automation Through Group Technology Principles,” Journal of Operations Management, 5 (February 1985): 151–182.

Schonberger R.J. , Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity (New York, NY: Free Press, 1982).

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Hall R. , Zero Inventories (Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1983).

Table 2 is based on a number of sources: Bessant J. Lamming R. Senker P. , “The Challenge of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing,” Technovation, 3 (1985): 283–295; Goldhar J.D. Jelinek M. , “Computer Integrated Flexible Manufacturing: Organizational, Economic, and Strategic Implications,” Interfaces, 15 (May/June 1985): 94–105; Goldhar J.D. Jelinek M. , “Plan for Economies of Scope,” Harvard Business Review, 61 (November/December 1983): 141–148; Meredith J. , “The Strategic Advantages of New Manufacturing Technologies for Small Firms,” Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming); Rosenthal S.R. , “A Survey of Factory Automation in the U.S.,” Operations Management Review, 2 (Winter 1984): 3–13; and Yankee Group, “Flexible Manufacturing Systems,” Factory Systems Planning Service: Industry Research Report, December 1984. The impact of specific technologies on specific measures are not listed in Table 2 but can be obtained from Meredith (forthcoming).

Based on Blois K.J. , “Matching New Manufacturing Technologies to Industrial Markets and Strategies,” Industrial Marketing Management, 14 (1985): 43–47.

From Goldhar Jelinek , (1983, 1985), op. cit.

Suresh Meredith , (1985), op. cit.

Gerwin D. , “The Do's and Don'ts of Computerized Manufacturing,” Harvard Business Review, 60 (March/April 1982): 107–116.

Richardson P.R. Taylor A.J. Gordon J.R.M. , “A Strategic Approach to Evaluating Manufacturing Performance,” Interfaces, 15 (November/December 1985): 15–27.

Marks P. , “Sink or CIM?” White Paper #1, Automation Technology Products, Campbell, CA, 1985.

Lardner J. , “A New Manufacturing Strategy: Reintegration,” Operations Management Review, 3 (Spring 1985): 3–8.

Eklund C.S. , “Why Black & Decker is Cutting Itself Down to Size,” Business Week, November 25, 1985, pp. 42, 44.

Meredith J. , “The Implementation of Computer Based Systems,” Journal of Operations Management, 2 (October 1981): 11–21.

For some mild examples, see Jablonowski J. , “Special Report 774: Reexamining FMSs,” American Machinist (March 1985), pp. 125–140.

Meredith J. , “Automation Strategy Must Give Careful Attention to the Finn's Infrastructure,” Industrial Engineering (May 1986), pp. 68–73.

Based on Rosenthal , (1984), op. cit.

Nichols , (1984), op. cit.

For discussions of the championing concept in automation, see Meredith J. , “A Champion for Automation,” Industrial Engineering, May 25, 26, 1985; or Meredith J. , “Strategic Planning for Factory Automation by the Championing Process,” IEEE, Transactions on Engineering Management, (November 1986), pp. 229–232.

Meredith , (forthcoming), op. cit.

Jonas N. , “The Hollow Corporation,” Business Week, March 3, 1986, pp. 57–86; Reich R.B. Mankin E.D. , “Joint Ventures With Japan Give Away Our Future,” Harvard Business Review, 64 (March/April 1986): 78–86.