Impact of Operations management and advanced manufacturing technologies in Small Medium Enterprises to sustain in a market

This paper seeks to explore the increased requirements for competitiveness, innovation, quality, flexibility, and information processing capability which has led a number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to implement advanced manufacturing technologies (AMT) for sustainable development . It was found that while increased CSF and AMT assimilation levels directly impact operational performance in terms of increased productivity, cost reductions, flexibility, quality, and integration, a mismatch between the two significantly reduces performance. From an information processing view of the firm, it was also found that increased uncertainty in the SMEs' environment leads to increased CSF levels but not to increased assimilation of advanced manufacturing technologies in market