%0 Journal Article %A Cesar H. Ortega Jimenez and Ignacio Eguia Salinas and Pedro Garrido Vega and Jose A. Dominguez Machuca %D 2012 %J International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 66, 2012 %T Meta-analysis of Performance: Summarizing Research for Implementation of Reconfigurability %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11941 %V 66 %X The aim of this study is to identify the conditions of implementation for reconfigurability in summarizing past flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) studies. Meta-analysis will be applied to links between HPM programs and their practices related to FMS and manufacturing performance with particular reference to responsiveness performance. More specifically, an application of meta-analysis will be made with reference to two of the main steps towards the development of an empirically-tested theory: testing the adequacy of the measurement of variables and testing the linkages between the variables. %P 1124 - 1134