Abstract
The existing researches used to explore the factors that may affect manufacturing performance assume the uncertainty of manufacturing environment as an exogenous variable so as to neglect the indirect influence of some factors, such as manufacturing flexibility, product diversity. And besides, the researches focus more on financial performance. The thesis will develop the manufacturing performance into three dimensions—the time performance, quality performance and efficiency performance, to research the relation among manufacturing environment, product diversity and manufacturing performance, considering the uncertainty in the manufacturing environment, constituting theoretical analysis model of manufacturing performance treating the uncertainty as intervening variable, regarding a semiconductor manufacturing company as specimen, and analyzing the theoretical model depended on the method of structural equation model. Eventually, it will propose recommendations for the manufacturer on the promotion of manufacturing performance.
This research was funded by the Youth Fund Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education of China (12YJC630111).
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Liu, Cy. (2013). Empirical Researches (Based on SEM) on the Factors that Affect Manufacturing Performance. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012) Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38445-5_17
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