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The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between information technology (IT) applications and performance in sixty-one Kuwaiti industrial companies. IT adoption included applications that facilitate internal and external information sharing and applications that support manufacturing.
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Companies expect to gain competitive advantages as well as many tangible and intangible benefits as a result of adopting IT in manufacturing and operations. Manufacturing performance was evaluated along the five dimensions of cost, quality, delivery, flexibility, and productivity
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Perceived use of intranets, computer aided design (CAD), computer aided manufacturing (CAM), quality control systems, and forecasting systems were found to have significant relationships with a number of manufacturing performance measures and their elements. The findings are discussed, and conclusions are made.
Professor M. Tawfik Mady
Kuwait University
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This page is a summary of: IT adoption and manufacturing performance in Kuwaiti industrial corporations, International Journal of Services and Operations Management, January 2006, Inderscience Publishers,
DOI: 10.1504/ijsom.2006.009028.
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