India is one of the fastest emerging global manufacturing hub with a large number of firms shifting their manufacturing base to the country due to cheap labor and good supplier(s) base. Over the years, India has the largest number of companies, outside of Japan, that have been recognized for excellence in quality. As many as 21 companies have received the Deming Exce...

A number of current manufacturing sectors are striving hard to introduce innovative long-term strategies into their operations. As a result, many scholarly studies have found it fruitful to investigate advanced manufacturing strategies such as agile, computer-integrated, and cellular manufacturing. Through the example of downstream cases, manufacturing sectors have learned that financial benefi...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical companies in Africa need to invest in both facilities and quality management systems to achieve good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliance. Compliance to international GMP standards is important to the attainment of World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification. However, most of the local pharmaceutical manufacturing companies may be deterred from investing in qua...

This paper examines the performance of the Morningstar Solvency Score, Morningstar's new accounting-ratio based metric for predicting bankruptcy, in comparison to the Altman Z-Score and Distance to Default models. Specifically we tested the following: 1. The ordinal ability of each model to distinguish companies most likely to file for bankruptcy from those least likely to file for bankruptcy a...

(Extended Abstract) I. INTRODUCTION Moore's Law and the market requirements for higher perfor­ mance chips are driving the production of increasingly smaller transistors, and therefore, are forcing more stringent controls on semiconductor manufacturing processes and equipment, with a very small room for error. The second trend in the semiconductor industry is the adoption of the e-Manufacturing...

This paper presents the problems and issues facing manufacturing companies in Malaysia, and analyses the reasons behind the growing demand for simulation. Such a demand can be mainly attributed to the companies’ search for methods to increase productivity, the emergence of manufacturing-oriented simulation software which requires no or little programming, and the graphical capability and availa...

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...