Abstract
Facing all the difficulties and uncertainties brought by the recent financial crisis, redesigning the manufacturing footprint can be the biggest and most important transformation a manufacturer can undertake. This paper tries to focus on this question and answer how to redesign a manufacturing footprint to address the constantly emerging new challenges by giving a holistic approach from dynamic perspective. Three Danish companies are presented. The way they developed their international manufacturing networks is analysed historically, and their redesigning of manufacturing footprint is expressed as how to re-assign portfolios of products and processes between specific plants within the same manufacturing network at one point in time. The strategic factors that have impact on such decisions are discussed and classified into two groups. Last, a holistic framework and a process model is presented, which could be used as a toolbox and a guide by industrial managers when they need to redesign their manufacturing footprints.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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| Titel | Proceedings of 14th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium : Configuring manufacturing value chains - Responding to an uncertain world |
| Antal sider | 18 |
| Forlag | University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing |
| Publikationsdato | 2009 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2009 |
| Begivenhed | 14th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium - Centre for International Manufacturing (CIM), Cambridge University, Cambridge, Storbritannien Varighed: 24 sep. 2009 → 25 sep. 2009 Konferencens nummer: 14 |
Konference
| Konference | 14th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium |
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| Nummer | 14 |
| Land/Område | Storbritannien |
| By | Centre for International Manufacturing (CIM), Cambridge University, Cambridge |
| Periode | 24/09/2009 → 25/09/2009 |