_Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation_
We invite submissions of quality papers that will be published by Gordon and Breach Publishers incorporated, in a hardcover, type-set book. We are looking for high quality papers in the following or related areas:
Manufacturing Strategy Development and Deployment
* National and International Manufacturing Strategy Efforts * Integrated Enterprise Frameworks * Systems Integration * Cross-functional Efforts and Management of Manufacturing Technology
Planning, Justification and Evaluation
* Justification Models and Tools * Configuration Development Models and Tools
Implementation Strategies
* Approaches and Techniques for Implementation * Team Efforts * Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Implementations * Models and Tools
Auditing
* Performance Measurement * Benchmarking * Pervasiveness and Need for Post-completion Audits * Continuous Improvement and Feedback Issues
Other issues such as Total Quality Management, Quality Function Deployment JIT, Concurrent Engineering, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, etc., can be addressed within the above mentioned areas. Papers may be conceptual, empirical, analytical.
Submission Deadlines:
Submission of an Abstract of the Contribution April 1, 1995
Submission of the Complete Contribution June 1, 1995
Editorial Comments and Review Decisions October 1, 1995
Submission of Revised Contribution December 1, 1995
Authors Interested in contributing to this book should mail 4 copies of the proposed title page (containing title, author(s), affiliation, telephone and fax numbers, and electronic mail address) to either of the Editors at the following addresses:
Joseph Sarkis, PhD, CPIM Assistant Professor Department of Information Systems University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 76019-0437 Tel: (817) 273-3530 FAX: (817) 794-5801 E-mail: sarkis@uta.edu
Hamid R. Parsaei, PhD, PE Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 Tel: (502) 852-1416 Fax: (502) 852-5633 Email: hrpars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu