Industrial Planning

INDUSTRIAL PLANNING AND STRATEGY

Databases - Journal Articles

Engineering Village
Engineering Village2 offers access to Compendex, the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering literature, containing references to over 13 million citations from 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and reports. Indexes and provides full-text journals within the manufacturing planning and operations management areas including:

Benchmarking
European Journal of Operational Research
Integrated Manufacturing Systems
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
International Journal of Production Research
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
Journal of Operations Management
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Production Planning and Control
Technovation

Science Direct
ScienceDirect is a Web information source for scientific, technical and medical (STM) research that offers online access to more than 1,100 journals across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences. Extending the power of this collection are journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers including, among others: CRC Press; ASM International; The Royal Society of Medicine, and; American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Indexes a wide range of industrial manufacturing-related journals including:

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture
International Journal of Production Economics
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
Journal of Operations Management
Omega
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Factiva
A massive database that delivers detailed company financials, company-to-industry ratios, and full-text articles from over 6,000 business-related sources. Factiva provides full text articles from a wide range of technology-driven journals, newspapers, and periodicals. Indexes many industrial and manufacturing journals including:

Industrial Distribution
Industrial Equipment News
Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
Industrial Management
Industrial Marketing Management
Industry Week
Journal of Manufacturing Systems
Machine Design
Manufacturing Automation
Survey of Current Business
Tooling & Production

Case Studies

ABI Inform
ABI/INFORM provides in-depth coverage of business issues, management techniques, competitive information, and a variety of other topics. It indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the United States. More than half of the articles are available in full-text or full-image. Offers thousands of Case Studies by company, industry, keyword, and product. Indexes and provides full-text for many industrial manufacturing journals including:

Control Engineering
EDN
IIE Transactions
Industrial Management Review
Industrial Distribution
Industrial Management
Industry Week
The Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Logistics Today
Manufacturing Engineering
Manufacturing Systems
MSI
Plant Engineering
Production and Inventory Management Journal
Production and Operations Management

Identifying Key Companies

Industry Week
Select Research > Best Manufacturing Companies > Census of Manufacturers > IW 1000

Hoovers Online
Covers public and large private companies. Provides company and industry information.
Select > Industries > Industry List - Manufacturing

.Related Websites

Institute of Operations Management

Themanager.org

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Frank Vuotto, M.A., M.L.I.S.
Business & Agribusiness Librarian, Faculty
California Polytechnic State University
Robert E. Kennedy Library
San Luis Obispo, CA 93420
fvuotto@calpoly.edu

Last updated August 25, 2005