Advanced Manufacturing: A New Policy Challenge

Offset Policy: An Advanced Countertrade Practice

This paper explains offset and develops a strategic approach for the implementation of offset-policy for a buyer country. Offset emerges when a country cannot afford to pay cash for non-essential imports, and cannot get cash for many of its products. Offset arrangements are most frequently found in the defense-related sector. However, recently, it refers to a range of industrial and commercial ...

Gambling: a unique policy challenge.

Over the past 15 years, provincial governments across Canada have consistently demonstrated their willingness to expand the availability of gambling (Campbell et al. 2010). Most recently, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) unveiled expansion plans that included eliminating 17 slots-at-race track venues and replacing them with 29 casinos nested more closely to population centres. T...

Real-life Manufacturing Problems: A Challenge

Real-life problems typically include both planning and scheduling components. In some areas, like manufacturing, the planning task is not very complicated but what makes the problem hard is integration with scheduling. Traditional schedulers cannot handle such problems because of the planning component and traditional planners are not interested because planning is easy there. The paper describ...

Advanced Engineering & Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Within the last decade, the importance of flexibility and efficiency has increased in the manufacturing sector. The rising level of uncertainty in consumer preferences has caused many organizations to aggressively search for cost reductions and other sources of competitive advantage. The small and medium scale industries (SMIs) are the backbone of the industrialization process in developing and...