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A fundamental question in the operationalisation of manufacturing strategy is how to link manufacturing objectives to action plans. The generation of a range of feasible action plans is a difficult task because many production variables need to be taken into account. Traditionally, such decisions were often made primarily on intuition and past experience. These approaches, though appropriate at times may not give the best results. To some extent, various techniques and decision support systems have helped managers to explore the issue, but with limitations. This paper describes the ongoing study to develop a software tool (TAPS) to assist managers in the generation of action plans, and the creation of a process to guide industrial companies through making such decisions. TAPS is based on Burbidge's Connectance Concept. TAPS helps managers to visualise and represent their perceptions of the relationships between variables and objectives through a sequential, analytical process. A manufacturing objective is linked to relevant variables to provide managers with a coherent picture of the levers that could be manipulated to achieve the desired outcome. This enables several possible acti

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Author

Kim Hua Tan; Ken Platts

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0925-5273)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)