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  • Publication
    Strategic selection of core components
    ( 1994)
    Mertins, K.
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    Edeler, H.
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    Sauer, O.
    Since product innovations are imitated immediately, competitive advantage of product innovations does not last very long whereas the process of gaining competence and experience in development and production requires great efforts for all competitors. International competition forces European production enterprises to decide about their future manufacturing strategy. This decision turns out to be of vital importance. The strategy for European manufacturers has to be putting focus on producing only a carefully selected spectrum of strategic products and components. The decision whether to keep a component or an assembly that has to be produced in-house is a strategic decision and cannot be dealt with as an operative question. The division Systems Planning at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), Berlin/FRG has developed a method for enterprises of production industry to maintain and even improve their market situation and their corporate value by s electing the company's core assemblies and core components.
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    Erfolg durch Konzentration auf Kernprozesse und durchgängige Auftragssteuerung.
    ( 1993)
    Mertins, K.
    ;
    Edeler, H.
    By the procedure described here, the enterprise is forced to concentrate on its strategic product areas and lines of development. All planning information which is necessary has to be made available systematically, in a uniform modelling logic and language. The goal is to design the central business processes and the whole structure of the works by means of intgrated computer-assisted tools.
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    Der unternehmensspezifische Kernprozess - seine Bedeutung für Produktionsstrategie und Prozeßinnovation
    ( 1993)
    Mertins, K.
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    Kiowski, J.
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    Edeler, H.
    ;
    Sauer, O.
    Its importance for product strategy and process innovation. At present manufacturing companies are increasingly endeavouring to improve their performance in all areas of the factory. In this effort a mere copying of methods successful in other places such as lean production can scarcely lead to the desired results in the formation of the production process. Instead, it is necessary to concentrate on the know-how existing in the company and to organize the production process as a company-specific core process.