Innovation capabilities are the key ingredient in enhancing the firms’ competitiveness and ensuring their survival. Obviously, there are quite different in innovation activities between mauufacturing firms and service firms. It is necessary to consider the distinctness between them in evaluating firms’ innovation capabilities. This paper proposes a model of innovation capabilities in manufactur...

Process yield has been an essential criterion used for manufacturing industries in business management. Quality managers and engineers involved in factories require capability analyses to access process yields, particularly, for processes with a very low fraction of defectives. It is noted that the accuracy of process yield is important; as it is one of major considerations for supplier selecti...

Porous Silicon (PS) samples have been prepared by electrochemical anodization of p-type silicon wafer by varying HF concentrations in the electrolytic solution. The structural, surface morphological, optical and surface composition analysis of the prepared samples were done by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Photoluminescence (PL) and Fourier transform infr...

Traditionally, the process capability index is developed assuming that the process output data are independent and follow normal distribution. However, in most environmental cases, the process data have more than one quality characteristic and exhibit property of autocorrelation. We propose two novel multivariate process capability indices for autocorrelated data, NMACp and NMACpm for the-nomin...

Process capability indices Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpp fitting for nominal-the-best type quality characteristics, are effective tools to assess process capability since these indices can reflect a centering process capability and process yield adequately. The index Cpp introduced by Greenwith and Jahr-Schaffrath [Greenwith, M., Jahr-Schaffrath, B.L., 1995. A process incapability index. International J...

porous silicon (ps) samples have been prepared by electrochemical anodization of p-type silicon wafer by varying hf concentrations in the electrolytic solution. the structural, surface morphological, optical and surface composition analysis of the prepared samples were done by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), photoluminescence (pl) and fourier transform infrared (fti...

The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index.The wind’s effectiveness was compared in different points of a watershed using a quantity called The Wind Shelter Index. It is necessary to choose a distance called the effective distance in the process of this index determination. The criterion already used for this purpose w...

A suitable index is proposed to evaluate the natural short–medium-term recovery capability of vegetation in burnt areas. The study area covers 2450 km in western Tuscany (Province of Pisa, Italy). This region is characterized by a typical Mediterranean climate and is subject to fire damage during the dry summer season. Damage is mitigated where a natural rapid regrowth of vegetation prevents so...