Strategies for regenerating manufacturing competitiveness - management by perception

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Competitiveness

scholarly journals Method for estimating manufacturing competitiveness: The case of the apparel maquiladora industry in Central America

DYNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 84 (200) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Roberto Ocampo ◽  
Juan Carlos Hernández-Matías ◽  
Antonio Vizán
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Manufacturing Competitiveness

En este trabajo se propone un método integrado para la estimación de la competitividad de fabricación de las empresas utilizando su rendimiento comparativo en sus objetivos de fabricación. El método desarrollado utiliza un extenso análisis de la literatura, junto con un análisis de expertos a través del método Delphi para identificar los factores que influyen en la competitividad de la industria bajo estudio. Diferentes coeficientes estadísticos tales como el alfa de Cronbach, W de Kendall, kappa de Fleiss y la correlación intraclase se utilizan para asegurar la fiabilidad de los instrumentos y de la opinión de los expertos. El análisis exploratorio de factores (EFA por sus siglas en inglés) y un posterior análisis factorial confirmatorio (CFA por sus siglas en inglés) se utilizan como el medio para obtener el modelo de medición con el que se calcula un indicador de la competitividad de fabricación. Un caso de estudio empírico utilizando el método propuesto se lleva a cabo en una muestra de plantas maquiladora de ropa.

Using learning networks to help improve manufacturing competitiveness

Technovation ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 373-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bessant ◽  
David Francis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Networks ◽  
Manufacturing Competitiveness

The Impact of Advanced Manufacturing Technology on a Mature Industry

1986 ◽  
Vol 200 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-255
Author(s):  
G R Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Tube Output ◽  
Manufacturing Competitiveness ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

TI Group plc is the largest private sector tube-maker in the UK. Group companies manufacture specialist and bearing tube as well as commodity welded and cold-drawn carbon seamless tube. A substantial proportion of tube output is exported from the UK. Continuing competitive pressures and the changing nature of demand from both home and export markets are forcing reappraisal of TI Group's approach to tube manufacture. TI Group sees the maintenance of manufacturing competitiveness as a key element of securing a profitable future, and policy now requires operating subsidiaries to give full weight to manufacturing considerations when formulating their business strategies. Against this background, TI Group tube manufacturing companies are devising plans and making fundamental changes to apply advanced manufacturing technology to their processes and manufacturing control systems so as to give a more flexible response to market demand whilst achieving further cost reductions.

scholarly journals Ambient Returns: Creative Capital's Contribution to Local Manufacturing Competitiveness

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Wojan ◽  
David A. McGranahan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Manufacturing Plants ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Employment Share ◽  
Local Manufacturing ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
Manufacturing Competitiveness ◽  
The Cost

This paper addresses the possibility that competitive rural manufacturing is increasingly driven by quality-of-life factors required to attract highly skilled and creative workers. Recent findings that highly creative workers are drawn to amenity-rich rural areas provide the empirical leverage for testing anecdotal claims that these areas tend to contain small manufacturing bases that are more reliant on innovation. This contrasts with the cost advantage rationale of traditional rural manufacturing, an advantage that is eroding with increased globalization. The analysis provides the first empirical evidence that the start of entrepreneurial manufacturing plants and the adoption of advanced technologies and management practices are strongly associated with the local employment share in highly creative occupations.

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