Introduction: improving manufacturing performance through technology diffusion, implementation and management

Business & Economics

• Manufacturing Performance 100%
• Technology Diffusion 95%
• Management of Technology 82%
• Manufacturing 64%
• Advanced Manufacturing Technology 56%
• Steel Industry 38%
• Venezuela 27%
• Robot 26%
• Just-in-time (JIT) 24%
• Hardware 22%
• Machinery 20%
• Industry 16%
• Technology Transfer 16%
• Manufacturing Resource Planning 16%
• Quality Circles 15%
• Manufacturing Flexibility 15%
• Delphi 15%
• Shared Knowledge 15%
• Manufacturing Management 15%
• Competitiveness 14%
• Key Sectors 14%
• Job Design 14%
• Diffusion of Technology 14%
• Organization Design 14%
• Conceptual Model 14%
• Machining 14%
• Manufactured Goods 14%
• Technology Implementation 13%
• Strategic Resources 13%
• Suppliers 13%
• Product Variety 13%
• Material Flow 13%
• Robotics 13%
• Strategy Formulation 13%
• Performance 13%
• Strategic Issues 13%
• Individual Performance 12%
• Manufacturing Strategy 12%
• Private Enterprise 12%
• Manufacturing Technology 12%
• Transfer of Technology 12%
• Technology Management 12%
• Revenue 12%
• International Conference 11%
• Operations Management 11%
• Field Study 10%
• Dissemination 10%
• Market Demand 10%
• Managers 10%
• Iron 10%
• Organizational Change 10%
• Consultants 10%
• Korea 9%
• Manufacturing Sector 9%
• Metals 9%
• Manufacturing Companies 9%
• Testing 9%
• Manufacturing Industries 9%
• Innovation 8%
• Oil 8%
• Factors 7%
• Resources 7%
• Modeling 6%
• Government 6%
• China 5%
• Alternatives 5%

Social Sciences

• manufacturing 73%
• manufacturing technology 44%
• management 38%
• performance 37%
• iron and steel industry 33%
• flexibility 14%
• firm 14%
• industry 14%
• technology transfer 14%
• Venezuela 13%
• hardware 12%
• supplier 12%
• industrial robot 11%
• market 10%
• CIM 9%
• quality circle 9%
• job design 8%
• demand 8%
• manufacturing sector 8%
• organizational goal 8%
• manufacturing industry 8%
• resources 8%
• private enterprise 8%
• organizational model 8%
• economy 7%
• engineering 7%
• fan 6%
• robot 6%
• organizational change 6%
• competitiveness 5%
• Korea 5%
• revenue 5%
• customer 5%
• manager 4%
• time 4%
• electronics 4%
• innovation 4%
• expert 3%
• China 3%
• planning 3%
• organization 3%
• costs 3%
• history 3%
• Group 1%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Industry 15%
• Iron and steel industry 14%
• Technology transfer 9%
• Machinery 7%
• Precision engineering 5%
• Metal working 5%
• History 4%
• Computer hardware 4%
• Foundries 4%
• Operations research 4%
• Industrial robots 4%
• Fans 3%
• Lead 3%
• Iron 3%
• Managers 3%
• Electronic equipment 3%
• Machining 3%
• Robotics 2%
• Oils 2%
• Robots 2%
• Planning 2%
• Testing 1%
• Costs 1%