A process for manufacturing objectives deployment

Literature on existing manufacturing strategy is very much focused on the formulation and setting of manufacturing objectives, little is available on the process of translating these objectives into action plans. This paper addresses this gap by presenting a three stage process: decomposing the objectives, identifying alternative actions and evaluating these actions. The process operationalises Burbidge’s Connectance Model for identifying variable relationships, and uses Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for evaluating alternatives. The early findings of the application of this process in industrial cases are briefly described.

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