Abstract:
Transition from products to services and integrating services into core product offering are well documented in management literature. Here the focus is on the intra-firm operation and supply strategies from a backward integration perspective. The objective of this paper is to develop a smart resource sharing model to facilitate the intra-firm backward integration that enables inhouse manufacturing of selected number of mission critical products. This paper deploys a deterministic mixed integer linear programming model to reshape the current maintenance and repair servicing facility layout to integrate the reverse engineering-based component manufacturing in a naval organization. Analysis of results suggests that this transition involves establishment of a new set of operating policies on resource sharing and job scheduling as the entity relaxes its' service-dominant stance.
Citation:
I. Mahakalanda and R. D. S. Arunapriya, "An MILP-based Intra-firm Smart Resource Sharing Model," 2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2021, pp. 119-123, doi: 10.1109/MERCon52712.2021.9525729.