Alan Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cranfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Leveled Scheduling
Leveled scheduling involves distributing volume and mix evenly over a given production time span. It is important to schedule material movements so that each movement is coordinated with the others when work cycles repeat in the production process.
Business Process Redesign
BPR can be defined as the radical reshaping of business processes. It ranges from complete reinvention of business enterprise to the reshaping of processes into new, greatly simplified processes that are much faster, more flexible, and better quality.
Setup Reduction
The purpose of setup reduction is to reduce the time, effort, and cost associated with changing a process from one activity to another. It is often described as the most useful technique in the implementation of just‐in‐time operations management.
JIT and MRP/ERP
Just‐in‐time ( JIT ) and material requirements planning/enterprise resource planning ( MRP/ERP ) are complementary approaches to production and organizational planning and control.
JIT Tools and Techniques
The operational tools and techniques is associated with the just‐in‐time ( JIT ) philosophies of customer pull and waste minimization. Many are not new or even exclusive to JIT applications. This article further categorizes these techniques according to their purpose: simplifying or integrating.
Resisting corporate communications: Insights into folk linguistics
Focus group research is used to examine how employees read corporate communications, supplying empirical evidence of an apparently resilient and shared anti-management discourse at the shopfloor level. The main contribution of the article lies in showing how such traditional attitudes are reproduced through employees' cynical readings of corporate communications. The article complements more conventional modes of discourse analysis by exploring h…
Coping With World Class Manufacturing
This article reports on a study of shopfloor ‘coping’ behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major ‘World Class Manufacturing’ (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More centrally, it reveals a significant gap between managerial understanding and attitudes to the new manufacturing and the response found among a significant proporti…
Sur les origines celtes de John Toland
Cet article établit que John Toland, né à la fin du xvne siècle, partageait la culture des Irlandais de langue maternelle gaélique. Il met en évidence l'intérêt de J. Toland, tout au long de sa vie, pour la culture et les langues celtes et repère l'influence de celles-ci sur le contenu et la présentation de ses idées peu orthodoxes
Capital and the Distribution of Labor Earnings . Michael Sattinger
Income Distribution and Inequality in Canada
The Canadian Fact Book on Income Distribution / Données de base sur la répartition du revenu au Canada
The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want
Journal Article LEBERGOTT (S.). The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want Get access The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want. By S. Lebergott. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. vi + 382. £11.00.) Alan Harrison Alan Harrison Queen’s University, Ontario, and University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 345, 1 March 1977, Pages 161–…
Resisting corporate communications: Insights into folk linguistics
Focus group research is used to examine how employees read corporate communications, supplying empirical evidence of an apparently resilient and shared anti-management discourse at the shopfloor level. The main contribution of the article lies in showing how such traditional attitudes are reproduced through employees' cynical readings of corporate communications. The article complements more conventional modes of discourse analysis by exploring h…
The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want
Journal Article LEBERGOTT (S.). The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want Get access The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want. By S. Lebergott. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. vi + 382. £11.00.) Alan Harrison Alan Harrison Queen’s University, Ontario, and University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 345, 1 March 1977, Pages 161–…
Coping With World Class Manufacturing
This article reports on a study of shopfloor ‘coping’ behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major ‘World Class Manufacturing’ (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More centrally, it reveals a significant gap between managerial understanding and attitudes to the new manufacturing and the response found among a significant proporti…
The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want
Journal Article LEBERGOTT (S.). The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want Get access The American Economy. Income, Wealth and Want. By S. Lebergott. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Pp. vi + 382. £11.00.) Alan Harrison Alan Harrison Queen’s University, Ontario, and University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 345, 1 March 1977, Pages 161–…
Income Distribution and Inequality in Canada
The Canadian Fact Book on Income Distribution / Données de base sur la répartition du revenu au Canada
Capital and the Distribution of Labor Earnings . Michael Sattinger
Sur les origines celtes de John Toland
Cet article établit que John Toland, né à la fin du xvne siècle, partageait la culture des Irlandais de langue maternelle gaélique. Il met en évidence l'intérêt de J. Toland, tout au long de sa vie, pour la culture et les langues celtes et repère l'influence de celles-ci sur le contenu et la présentation de ses idées peu orthodoxes
Coping With World Class Manufacturing
This article reports on a study of shopfloor ‘coping’ behaviour in an engineering company which had launched a major ‘World Class Manufacturing’ (WCM) initiative. The article unpacks the meaning of WCM and shows how its impact varied markedly between different manufacturing cells. More centrally, it reveals a significant gap between managerial understanding and attitudes to the new manufacturing and the response found among a significant proporti…
Resisting corporate communications: Insights into folk linguistics
Focus group research is used to examine how employees read corporate communications, supplying empirical evidence of an apparently resilient and shared anti-management discourse at the shopfloor level. The main contribution of the article lies in showing how such traditional attitudes are reproduced through employees' cynical readings of corporate communications. The article complements more conventional modes of discourse analysis by exploring h…
Leveled Scheduling
Leveled scheduling involves distributing volume and mix evenly over a given production time span. It is important to schedule material movements so that each movement is coordinated with the others when work cycles repeat in the production process.
Business Process Redesign
BPR can be defined as the radical reshaping of business processes. It ranges from complete reinvention of business enterprise to the reshaping of processes into new, greatly simplified processes that are much faster, more flexible, and better quality.
Setup Reduction
The purpose of setup reduction is to reduce the time, effort, and cost associated with changing a process from one activity to another. It is often described as the most useful technique in the implementation of just‐in‐time operations management.
JIT and MRP/ERP
Just‐in‐time ( JIT ) and material requirements planning/enterprise resource planning ( MRP/ERP ) are complementary approaches to production and organizational planning and control.
JIT Tools and Techniques
The operational tools and techniques is associated with the just‐in‐time ( JIT ) philosophies of customer pull and waste minimization. Many are not new or even exclusive to JIT applications. This article further categorizes these techniques according to their purpose: simplifying or integrating.
Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (4 works) · Distribution (mathematics (3 works) · Manufacturing engineering (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Operating system (3 works) · Operations management (3 works)