The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

The changing competitive landscape has brought new forces to bear on the manner in which new products are developed. These forces have put the creation and dissemination of knowledge at the centre of many firms’ new product development (NPD) strategies. Organizational models to support NPD have evolved over the years and a significant aspect of this evolution has been the emergence of organizat...

A hierarchical deployment of distributed product lifecycle management system in collaborative product development Yuan-Ping Luh a , Chih-Chin Pan b & Chih-Hsing Chu c a Institute of Manufacturing Technology , National Taipei University of Technology , Taipei, Taiwan b PDM/PLM Division , Alpha Precision Instrument Corporation , Taipei, Taiwan c Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineerin...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Henri Simula Name of the doctoral dissertation Management of Commercialization Case Studies of Industrial, Business-to-Business Product Innovations Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 122/2012 Field of research In...

The notion of Lean Manufacturing is not merely confined to a set of well defined techniques, but represents a broad approach to managing a company. Working with lean entails many aspects, such as production planning and control, production engineering, product development, supply chain, and organizational issues. To become effective, many functional areas and departments must be involved. At th...

Along with increasing concerns on environmental protection and global warming mitigation, new industrial organization modes such as "Ecoindustrial Park" and "Low Carbon Industrial Park" are emerging. Since ecoindustrial parks and low carbon industrial parks may offer multifaceted benefits to the users, it naturally follows that the sustainability assessment of the industrial parks ought to adop...

Abstract We present a new class of methods for identification and inference in dynamic models with serially correlated unobservables, which typically imply that state variables are econometrically endogenous. In the context Industrial Organization, these often reflect endogenous market structure. propose use Generalized Instrument Variables to identify those policy functions consistent instrume...

This article outlines a new framework for understanding the current period of global restructuring, focusing on the relationship between technological change and organizational change. After reviewing the major approaches in the debate over future pathways to industrialization, a new perspective for understanding the ‘new industrial revolution’ is presented. At the core of this revolution is th...

Although many theoretical industrial organization models are based on the existence of a critical mass of exogenously “brand loyal” consumers, we find little empirical evidence supporting these assumptions in the orange juice retail market. There are very few loyal consumers. More importantly, the frequency with which stores conduct sales affects the share of loyal types so that loyalty is endo...