Consumer attitudes towards production diseases in intensive production systems

Evolvable Production Systems: Approach towards Modern Production Systems

To face current socio-economic adverse conditions enterprises must increase their efficiency and evolve to the requirements of customization and sustainability. Modern production systems need to deal with instability of markets and resource scarcity regarding an economical, ecological and social concern. The Evolvable Production Systems (EPS) has aimed at developing such technological solutions...

Stochastic human fatigue modeling in production systems

The performance of human resources is affected by various factors such as mental and physical fatigue, skill, and available time in the production systems. Generally, these mentioned factors have effects on human reliability and consequently change the reliability of production systems. Fatigue is a stochastic factor that changes according to other factors such as environmental conditions, work...

Consumer Percepton and Attitudes towards Green Cars

The paper looks into the consumer perception and attitudes towards green cars. A questionnaire was designed with a sample size of 157 in area of Mumbai. The objectives of research is to determine perception of Green Cars in the minds of the average Indian Consumer, to ascertain the attitudes of people towards alternatively fueled vehicles and to ascertain the qualities that consumers look for i...

Towards Eco-efficient Lean Production Systems

Lean Production has proved itself a worthwhile production strategy in many distinct industries across all regions of the planet by achieving higher levels of production efficiency. Several authors identified that Lean inadvertently has had significant environmental gains. Such achievements are considered of special relevance in a global and highly competitive economy which is progressively both...

Consumers’ Attitudes towards Green Food production in China: A test of the values-attitudes hierarchy