One of the most important effective factors in the economic growth is the increased efficiency of manufacturing sectors. Thus, it is necessary to review and measure the efficiency of business units from a variety of dimensions to plan the increase of efficiency in future courses. One of these dimensions is the economics to scale (ES) referring to the concept of enhanced earnings due to the incr...

Process tolerancing based on the process capability studies is the optimistic and pragmatic approach of determining the manufacturing process tolerances. On adopting the define–measure–analyze–improve–control approach, the process potential capability index (C p) and the process performance capability index (C pk) values of identified process characteristics of connecting rod ...

The implementation of lean manufacturing has been on the rise globally. Numerous manufacturing industries including the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industry in Malaysia has embraced lean methods in order to improve efficiency, achieve better quality and be more competitive on the global market front. However the journey to implement lean manufacturing is bound to encounter challenges. The ...

This paper chooses the manufacturing added value as the main research indicator, using gravity analysis method to analyze the spatial evolution of manufacturing industry in Guangdong province from 2006 to 2015, decomposing the manufacturing gravity and calculating the grey correlation degree. The results show that: 1) manufacturing gravity is mainly distributed in Dongguan, it is characterized ...

Manufacturing enterprises are being forced into greater collaboration with customers and suppliers in order to produce quality products in smaller batches, shorter lead times, and with greater variety. Consequently, the design-for-manufacturing task must be conducted in these virtual and distributed enterprises across traditional organizational boundaries. This paper proposes the use of standar...

This paper presents findings of an extensive survey of Indian manufacturing companies. The survey encompassed four sectors: automobile, electronics, machinery, and process industry. Various manufacturing strategy issues (such as competitive priorities, order winners, and activities of improvement) have been identified and assessed in Indian context. Sector wise comparison of competitive priorit...

This paper presents a simulation study carried out to solve a problem of manufacturing process reengineering. The specific company in which the study took place is a medium size manufacturer of chest freezers, which required an in-depth analysis of its manufacturing operations in an attempt to increase its throughput and overall productivity. A simulation model of the current manufacturing syst...

The emerging of the new global economy has forced companies to adopt innovative manufacturing practices. In this context the concept of Extended Enterprise has emerged as a model which companies are pursuing in order to remain competitive in global markets. A research project named Extended Enterprise Demonstration Factory program is being carried out in order to create reference models, method...

Original scientific paper The research within project Innovative Smart Enterprise (INSENT) was conducted in order to improve scientific understanding of the current state of Croatian manufacturing industry by promoting empirical, enterprise-level research on technological and non-technological processes and organizational innovation. The aim was to understand how manufacturing enterprises in Cr...