This article provides a case study for a fire extinguisher manufacturing company in North America that has been building a new facility in Mexico to benefit from North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and low production cost. The company utilized a value stream mapping to finalize its new facility’s manufacturing process design, and divided the process into several groups, some of which wer...

Since its creation, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has experienced a tremendous growth particularly over the last decade due to industrial paradigm shift intended for improving conventional manufacturing procedures. This work is focused on an emerging AM process known as Wire-Arc (WAAM) assess potential further applications involving metallic costumer-oriented parts. Contrary most processes, WAAM ...

Africa has the highest disease burden in the world and continues to depend on pharmaceutical imports to meet public health needs. As Asian manufacturers of generic medicines begin to operate under a more protectionist intellectual property regime, their ability to manufacture medicines at prices that are affordable to poorer countries is becoming more circumscribed. The Doha Declaration on the ...

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The Covid-19 pandemic reduced the availability of work placements in commercial organisations for university students and potentially changed nature future. Similarly, charitable who were already suffering budget restrictions have been financially affected by due to revenue on trading activities, with financial sustainability predicted be an ongoing issue. opportunity, therefore, charities enti...

Lean manufacturing is a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating wastes (non-value added activities) through continuous improvement by conveying the product at the pull of the customer in pursuit of production. In a more basic term, more value with less work. Since lean manufacturing eliminates many of the problems associated with poor production scheduling and line balancing, lean ma...