Improving Manufacturing Performance by Standardization of Interprocess Communication

A number of environmental forces such as increasing value chain network complexity, decreasing product life-cycle cost, and time-to-market requirements or increasing product complexity act upon manufacturing organizations, enhancing the acute need for organizational routines that foster efficient an...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on engineering management 2015-08, Vol.62 (3), p.351-360
Main Authors: Villalba-Diez, Javier, Ordieres-Mere, Joaquin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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Communication
holonic systems
interprocess communication
Knowledge sharing
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
manufacturing performance
Organizations
Problem-solving
process standardization
Product life cycle
Receivers
Standardization
Standards organizations
Studies
Value chain
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Summary:A number of environmental forces such as increasing value chain network complexity, decreasing product life-cycle cost, and time-to-market requirements or increasing product complexity act upon manufacturing organizations, enhancing the acute need for organizational routines that foster efficient and effective communication between processes. Such organizational routines erode quickly in the absence of common standards for knowledge sharing, that is why successful manufacturing systems benefit from interprocess standardization. The purpose of this paper is to offer a standardization model of interprocess communication that increases manufacturing operational performance (MOP). First, we propose a novel holistic model that makes standardized interprocess communication possible in manufacturing organizations. Second, we propose a model for quantifying the implications of standardizing interprocess communication upon MOP. Finally, as a matter of application, we show the results of its successful implementation in one Japanese manufacturing organization.
ISSN:0018-9391
1558-0040
DOI:10.1109/TEM.2015.2424156