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Item Open Access Breakthrough to world class manufacturing : a strategy for the tranformation(1990) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Computer integrated manufacture(CIM)-buy now or pay later(1990) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Determining a technology strategy for competitive advantage(1991) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access A framework for the strategic management of both service and manufacturing operations(1993) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access How to achieve competitive edge by simultaneous process engineering(1991) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access How to perform simultaneous process engineering(1992) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Information technology for management education: the benefits and barriers(1992) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Just in time (JIT) manufacturing-but at what cost?(1990) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Linking competitive and generic manufacturing strategies(2000) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Manufacturing standards of performance for success(Cranfield School of Management, 1995) Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, MarekThis paper details the findings of a study of the manufacturing performances and practices of 140 engineering companies in the UK. From this study, significant differences in the manufacturing competitiveness of these firms have been identified. Causes for the performance differences are discussed and recommendations are made for the design of a manufacturing strategy to improve manufacturing competitiveness.Item Open Access Manufacturing strategy and perfomance:A study of the UK engineering industry(Cranfield School of Management, 1995) Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, MarekThis paper details the findings of a search for manufacturing "strategic groups" in the engineering industry, that is a set of firms competing within an industry on the basis of similar combinations of business scope and resource commitments. The research methodology used was to adopt stockturns (excluding work in process), as a measure of manufacturing scope. Manufacturing throughtput efficiency was selected as a measure of production engineering resource commitment. An initial grouping of companies was accomplished by using these two manufacturing performance variables. Comparisons were then made of the manufacturing practices and performances of the firms in the four strategic groups that were formed. The results obtained show statistically differences in the performance of each of the strategic groups formed. They can also serve as benchmarks for the evaluation of manufacturing manangement performance. The proposed manufacturing strategy and performance matrix provides a practical framework for strategic planning.Item Open Access Manufacturing-led competitiveness : use maths not myths(1991) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access A methodology for the strategic management of international manufacturing and sourcing(1994) Sweeney, Mike T.Little previous research has been carried out on the issues to be considered when choosing between manufacturing at home, offshore or sourcing from an offshore third party supplier. As a consequence, few concepts or frameworks have been developed to help determine how the manufacturing and sourcing resources of a business should be configured to create or sustain a competitive advantage. The offshore production or sourcing of manufactured products is usually organised to lower costs. However, such a strategic move can constrain an organisation’s capability to satisfy other critical market needs. Many manufacturing companies must now adopt strategies that deliver both a time-based and a price competitive advantage. There is therefore a need to develop strategic management frameworks for determining how the use of both international production and sourcing resources can enable the adoption of both least cost and differentiation competitive strategies. This was the objective of the study detailed in this paper.Item Open Access The search for generic manufacturing strategies in the UK engineering industry(1996) Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, MarekThe search for generic manufacturing strategies has been attempted previously using the American and the European Manufacturing Futures survey data. This paper details the results of a study using manufacturing strategy and performance data submitted by 120 competitors for the 1993 and 1994 UK Best Factory Award. The research method used was the same as that applied by the previous researchers of this subject. This was to carry out a cluster analysis of the rankings of emphasis to be given to the improvement of six competitive capabilities during a two year period following completion of the questionnaire. Only data from UK engineering companies were used for this analysis. The study findings are similar to those of the previous American study but add to them. Four distinct clusters of different competitive capabilities were observed. The distinguishing competitive capability of each cluster was found to be consistent with those detailed in a previously published theoretical framework that linked competitive capabilities with generic manufacturing strategy types.Item Open Access The strategic management of international manufacturing and sourcing(1993) Sweeney, Mike T.Little previous research has been carried out on the strategic management of international manufacturing and the subject appearsto be a “missing theme” in operations management literature. What are the criteria used for the selection of products to be manufactured offshore, what are they for sourcing from third parties or for manufacturing in the home country? This is the subject of this paper. The research tindings show the hypothesis that offshore manufacturing is organized to prolong the competitivenessof mature products to be an oversimplification as an explanation for the location of production. Some manufacturing businessesnow use time based competitive strategies and their take-up requires a different configuration of manufacturing resources.Item Open Access The strategic management of manufacturing : from waste to haste(1991) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Strategic manufacturing management : restructuring wasteful production to world class(1992) Sweeney, Mike T.Item Open Access Towards a unified theory of strategic manufacturing management(1991) Sweeney, Mike T.