Work Study: Volume 44 Issue 3
Table of contents
Aggregate planning today
Lin Pan, Brian H. KleinerA firm must plan its manufacturing activities at a variety of levelsand operate these as a system. Aggregate planning is medium‐rangecapacity planning which typically covers a…
Report from the Fifth International Conference on Productivity and Quality Research
John HeapWay back in February of this year, I attended ICPQR95 (see the titleof this piece to work out what the letters stand for) in Miami, USA.(The things I do for Work Study readers!…
A state government which costs less and achieves results
Nancy L. HadleyThree years ago, a small group of Connecticut state agency leadersgot excited about the possibility of reinventing government in the imageof businesses which were pursuing quality…
Management commitment for successful suggestion systems
Andrew E. MarxEverything mankind has and will have in the future is and will be theresult of people′s ideas. Ideas are derived not only from people ofabove average intelligence, but also from…
ATM finds an application
John LynchATM is the coming network technology. We keep being told so –by suppliers of ATM equipment! It is true that ATM offers the potentialof huge bandwidth but the question is Is now…
Implications of lean manufacturing for human resource strategy
Rosalind ForresterThe advent of fundamental changes in processing systems towards leanmanufacturing has coincided with a period of transition within the fieldof people management. Many companies…