In today's competitive market, all manufacturers attempt to improve their maintenance policy in order to decrease the cost of failure and increase the quality of products, but most of these attempts do not consider the role of humans involved in a manufacturing system. Human resources are the main factor in manufacturing that has an undeniable effect on products quality, machines reliability, s...

Issue The ter m ”Dutch Disease” originally referred to the adverse effects of the large North Sea natural gas discoveries on the Dutch manufacturing sector and economic growth. Dutch Disease is now an economic term that refers to the general ef fects of a commodity export boom on an economy. The booming sector drives up the cost of labour and other non-tradable inputs, which makes other tradabl...

The notion of ‘post-industrialization’ has been at the center of most reflections upon our information age. From this perspective, economic foundations no longer are rooted in industrial production but primarily to be found in services and information processing. Our claim in this article is that this is not an up to date perspective on modern economies. In a first step we deal with what may be...

In the downstream oil & chemical industry Planning and Scheduling are resource intensive, complex, rolling processes. Decisions are taken at different stages within the supply chain (Supply, Manufacturing & Distribution) and at different levels in the management hierarchy (Planning, Scheduling & Operations). They differ in business scope, time horizon & resolution, data certainty & accuracy, pr...

The research task of this thesis is to assess the scope and scale of economic development and the evolution of the manufacturing sector within the context of the political economy of Queensland during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The historical approach used to investigative these processes draws upon interdisciplinary theory and methods from economic history, sociology, ec...

having a full understanding of the world’s social-economic situation is the success key for industries automotive manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive one usually there is no clear guideline among automotive companies about technological causes behind their success and failure. this research provides an investigation about the world’s economic situation and the environmental situa...