Operations is a core functional area of an organization, along with marketing, human resources and accounting. Operations management plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality of products and ...

Faced with dynamic market changes and competitive threats, manufacturers are broadening their focus from execution within a single facility or factory, to orchestrating execution across the entire ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Today, automation/robotics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) find themselves focusing ...

For decades, MOM (manufacturing operations management) systems have enabled industrial manufacturing companies to control production and optimize efficiency — from short-term scheduling of operations ...

Manufacturing systems are increasingly challenged by intricate product architectures, global market volatility and rapid technological progress. Complexity management involves the systematic ...

There are five main differences between service and manufacturing organizations: the tangibility of their output; production on demand or for inventory; customer-specific production; labor-intensive ...

Resilience in manufacturing operations is the idea of building an organization and an operation that can face challenges head-on, defeat those challenges and come out even stronger and prepared for ...

Faculty in the Operations Department examine how firms design and manage their activities and resources to achieve their strategic goals. Through both theoretical and empirical research, the faculty ...

Professor Martin A. Lariviere joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2000. Professor Lariviere's research has focused on applying economic analysis to operations management problems ...

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS Microelectronics, Inc. (GSME) today announced its official launch as a global provider of Outsourced Semiconductor Manufacturing and Operations (OSeMO) services.