Browsing by Author "Evans, Stephen"

Browsing by Author "Evans, Stephen"

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  • Manufacturers response to climate change 
    Rattanakit, Rattanachai (Cranfield University, 2007-09)
    There is now clear scientific proof which indicates that emissions from economic activity, particularly the industrial sector, are the main cause of the change in global climatic conditions. The Stern Review describes ...
  • Network master planning for a global manufacturing company 
    Heinz, Michael Pierre (Cranfield UniversitySchool of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, 2006-02)
    Production in global, intra-organisational networks is becoming more common. In this context, the allocation of production quantities to constrained manufacturing capacity is a challenging process. Due to a volatile ...
  • An Ontology for Product-Service Systems 
    Annamalai Vasantha, Gokula Vijaykumar; Hussain, Romana; Cakkol, Mehmet; Roy, Rajkumar; Evans, Stephen; Tiwari, Ashutosh (Cranfield University, 2010)
    Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. ...
  • Operationalising luxury in the premium automotive industry 
    Bridle, Bernadette (Cranfield University, 2010)
    This thesis presents an Action Research project investigating the use of customers’ perceptions of premium and luxury cars within the premium automotive industry. The research was sponsored by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), ...
  • Performance measurement to improve knowledge reuse and invention in new product development 
    Roth, Norman G. (Cranfield University, 2002-02)
    Abstract The aim of this research is to identify novel functions and design principles for performance measurement which assist the user in better managing knowledge reuse and invention in New Product Development (NPD) ...
  • The phenomenology of customer delight: a case study of product evaluation 
    Burns, Andrew Douglas (Cranfield University, 2003)
    This thesis presents a phenomenological case study of customer delight during product evaluation. The literature presents two existing 'theories' of customer delight. The first, from the field of Consumer Research, ...
  • Potential for leverage between the quality management and knowledge management professional communities : an intellectual capital mapping 
    Dvir, Ron (Cranfield University, 2002)
    This research describes the problems facing two important professional communities, Quality Management (QM) and Knowledge Management (KM), which face multiple challenges in their efforts to impact the organisations in ...
  • Pre-paradigmatic status of industrial sustainability: a systematic review 
    Smart, Palie; Hemel, Stefan; Lettice, Fiona; Adams, Richard; Evans, Stephen (Emerald, 2017-10-01)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to progress operations management theory and practice by organising contributions to knowledge production, in industrial sustainability, from disparate researcher communities. It ...
  • Product service systems and supply network relationships: an exploratory case study 
    Lockett, Helen L.; Johnson, Mark; Bastl, Marko; Evans, Stephen (MCB University Press, 2011-03-01)
    Purpose - In recent years there has been increasing interest in Product Service Systems (PSS) as a business model for selling integrated product and service offerings. To date there has been extensive research into the ...
  • Strategies for Designing and Developing Services for Manufacturing Firms 
    Tan, A. R.; Matzen, D.; McAloone, Timothy Charles; Evans, Stephen (Cranfield University Press, 2009-04-01)
    Product/service-systems (PSS) are in effect an approach to designing integrated products and services with a focus on both customer activities and product life cycle considerations. Literature offers a range of ...
  • Study of the process and problems of strategic outsourcing on-going management 
    Monteiro Duarte, Goncalo Nuno (Cranfield University, 2005-10)
    Purpose To develop a model that describes the clients' management process of strategic outsourcing of services during its on-going phase. The study identifies and explores problems that occur during this phase and which ...
  • Transformation of traditional manufacturers towards servitized organisations 
    Vladimirova, Doroteya Kamenova (Cranfield University, 2012-09)
    In response to competitive and economic pressures, an increasing number of manufacturing firms are adding services to their traditional product offerings. However, companies are confronted with an arduous undertaking, and ...
  • Zero carbon manufacturing facility - towards integrating material, energy, and waste process flows 
    Ball, Peter D.; Evans, Stephen; Levers, A.; Ellison, D. (Professional Engineering Publishing, 2009-09-01)
    The increasing pressure on material availability, energy prices, as well as emerging environmental legislation is leading manufacturers to adopt solutions to reduce their material and energy consumption as well as their ...