“大为化工”崛起云南大型化工装备国产化获突破

在重化工制造领域,一个新型重化工装备制造企业——云南大为化工装备制造有限公司正在崛起,同时引领云南大型化工装备国产化获得一个又一个重大进展。     

“中原”崛起打造新兴纺织产业基地

近年来,河南省凭借丰富的劳动力资源、素质较高的产业工人、良好的资源成本和交通条件,成为国家纺织服装产业转移的承接热地,也迎来了属于自己发展的最佳时机。如今、位于郑州中原区的郑州纺织服装产业园拔地而起,通过完善地产业链条建设,成为中国新兴纺织产业基地的代表。     

小车“超人”再定位

尽管已经进入中国快20年,铃木的口碑仍只是在小型车领域传播,出于品牌向上的考虑,它终于推出了自己的B级车。     

1万亿市场：中国装备的“汽车机会”

据相关资料显示：中国汽车业在“十一五”末到“十三五”初将投入1．5万亿元人民币的巨资进行技术改造,其中70％的资金用于购买设备。也就是说在“十二五”期间,中国汽车工业将为设备制造企业提供1万亿元的巨大市场。这个数字令人不得不侧目而视……     

装备制造:“脊梁”的进程

正某种程度上,装备制造业是支撑中国核电发展的脊梁。历届核工展上,装备制造企业都是重要组成部分,而且表现得异常厚重与沉稳。本届展会三菱重工等国际装备巨头企业并未参展,这也让业界关注的焦点更多地集中到了国内装备企业身上。一度受福岛核事故影响而饱尝沉浮之苦的核电装备制造企业,目前的进展如何?随着核电形势的逐渐好转,在坊间乃至业界流传的装备企业产能过剩趋势是否得到缓解?带着这些     

从“制造”到“智造”

当我们说中国制造,也意味着与中国一起制造——这是近日正在国外主流媒体播放的中国制造广告的结束语。从Made in China升级到Made with China,该广告中国     

节能减排遭遇装备制造“不给力”

中国有句古话:"工欲善其事,必先利其器。"根据"十二五"规划的要求,国家继续把化学需氧量、二氧化硫排放量作为约束性指标,同时又把氮氧化物和氨氮列入了约束性指标,指标的减排幅度是8%～10%。目标确定了,节能减排的技术装备能否跟上?     

长城汽车：面向全球张扬“中国制造”？

在那些巴不得将“Made in China”痕迹统统抹掉的汽车生产商看来,长城的做法颇有点搬起石头砸自己脚的意思——自7月始,该品牌在央视黄金时间滚动播出的一条时长15秒的广告片里,特立独行地打出了“中国造,长城车”的大旗。     

“制造”朗逸

公共关系与广告的交叉运用是汽车企业持续不断强化新品在消费者心目中品牌印记的有效手段。汽车厂商都清楚,没有任何一种产品能够长久独领风骚,喜新厌旧的消费者很容易被其他产品所吸引。     

中原再掀“转移”热潮

一场蒙蒙细雨之后,放晴的扶沟县迎来了号称当地史上规格最高的一次盛会,来自全国纺织服装产业集群地的企业家、集群管理人员、专家、协会领导齐聚一堂,共商服装产业转移大计。中国服装协会专职副会长冯德虎慷慨致辞,     

The manufacturing/design interface

The paper explains why the traditional relationship between design and manufacturing needs to be changed and what it should be replaced with. Traditionally, the relationship has been sequential. At the beginning of the innovation process design goes ahead alone, manufacturing's input being largely overlooked. Only after the design has been completed does manufacturing take over responsibility, and only then may it emerge that re-design is necessary to make production feasible. The results can be high costs, late delivery and disappointing performance. The changes that have made this practice less supportable include shortened product lifecycles, Japanese competition, customers becoming increasingly quality-conscious, need to deliver exactly on time, and minimization of inventories. Fortunately, new technologies such as CAD/CAM and FMS have come along that can help to rectify these deficiencies; how far they are taken up and effectively used depends on the sharp distinction between the functions being discarded and replaced by their substantial integration. Possibilities that each enterprise could explore include ensuring continuous communication and cooperation between the functions, joint problem solving, replacement of functional management by project management, supplier involvement, elimination of the status differential between design and manufacturing, design for manufacturability, and better understanding by the design function of the realities of the business world. The author warns that integration may not be a universal cure. In particular, he suggests that the innovations closely linked with scientific advances may need some degree of functional differentiation. Changes in the competitive environment require manufacturing organizations to change their view on the relationship between manufacturing and design, and on the way the interface between these two functions has to be managed. In this paper we will first describe the traditional view. Afterwards we will describe the environmental changes that make us question the effectiveness of this view. Finally in a third part we will describe the characteristics of the new approach.     

Multi-site available-to-promise modeling for assemble-to-order manufacturing: An illustration on TFT-LCD manufacturing

Available-to-promise (ATP) serves as a significant factor to enhance customer service in order promising. Most research regarding ATP considered only one plant and was not mainly developed under the make-to-order (MTO) or assemble-to-order (ATO) strategy. We constructed a generic three-stage model of multi-site ATP mechanism for ATO manufacturing and experimented on a local TFT-LCD manufacturer. We further tested eight scenarios of ATP allocation plans based on different cost structures in the objective functions to compare the ATP plans and performances. Results showed that we can obtain an appropriate ATP plan with proper cost structure.     

The effects of integrated manufacturing on job characteristics

From a sample of 203 Spanish plants in all manufacturing sectors empirical results show that integrated manufacturing (IM) has a positive effect on job variety, job autonomy and job interdependence for production workers. It is also found that IM is associated with greater job complexity, this effect being mainly mediated by the three abovementioned job characteristics.     

The selected determinants of manufacturing postponement within supply chain context: An international study

Modern supply chains focus on an ultimate consumer satisfaction and often require essential dynamic reconfiguration. Manufacturing companies constitute important central nodes in supply chains, where almost all physical flows are concentrated.Postponement is the operating concept, which aims at delaying activities until a customer’s order has been received. The growth of interest in the postponement concept partially results from the increased demand for customized products.Data for the analysis has been collected through the survey carried out by researchers in several countries. The main research instrument used for this research was a questionnaire developed by the Global Manufacturing Research Group (GMRG). The conclusions formulated on the basis of data analysis proved that market and demand characteristics do not seem to be important for the choice between postponement and speculation strategy. The research showed that assembly postponement depends mostly on managerial decisions about the goals of company and the level of acceptance of an assembly postponement strategy on the market. Full postponement strategy is dictated mainly by the level of product customization and capacities of manufacturing and logistics systems. Production postponement has to be accepted on the market and should be associated with excellent forecasting techniques.     

Technological capabilities and firm performance: The case of small manufacturing firms in Japan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between technological capabilities and firm performance. We divide technological capabilities into two types—refinement capability, which involves the improvement of the existing asset portfolio, and reconfiguration capability, which involves the restructuring of the asset portfolio through the integration of new assets. The results of an analysis of a sample of 302 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms in Japan suggest that refinement capability relates more positively to operational efficiency than does reconfiguration capability, and that reconfiguration capability relates more positively to strategic performance than does refinement capability. The results also suggest that firms with superior refinement capability tend to possess superior reconfiguration capability. Our findings show that both external and internal factors, such as technological volatility, inter-firm collaboration, and firm age and size, are significantly associated with the level of refinement and reconfiguration capabilities possessed by a firm.

The possibility of price umbrellas in Canadian manufacturing industries

The paper looks for evidence of ‘price umbrelias’ within Canadian manufacturing industries. Price umbrellas occur when relatively low-cost firms, trading-off market share against profit margins, set a price high enough to allow relatively high-cost firms to remain in business (the latter have an ‘umbrella’ held over them). The disaggregated data appear to show (1) that there are significant differences in average costs between the plants within an industry, (2) that the marginal costs of the low-cost plants are non-increasing with output. Together, these findings imply that output could be transferred from high- to low-cost plants with a reduction in total-industry costs, consistent with the existence of price umbrellas. The numbers are quite large.     

The contribution of manufacturing to shortening design cycle times

Shortening design cycle times, without increasing design costs or sacrificing quality has become an important management goal. In this paper, we will provide a short overview of the literature on shortening design cycle times. Building on this, we want to establish how manufacturing and the manufacturing/R&D interface can contribute to shorter development cycle times. The European Manufacturing Futures database will be used to test some of the literature findings on a sample of large European Manufacturers.