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...

*Prof. Uwe Reischl, Ph.D., College of Health Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA ([email protected]), Ravindra Goonetilleke, Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, prof. Budimir Mijović, Ph.D., prof. Zenun Skenderi, Ph.D., Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia....

The condition of landscapes and the ecological communities within them is strongly related to levels of human activity. Human-dominated land uses and especially the intensity of the uses can affect adjacent ecological communities through direct, secondary, and cumulative impacts. Using land use data and a development-intensity measure derived from energy use per unit area, an index of Landscape...

Based on the concept of “economic cycle cube”, this research constructs the multi-dimension monitoring system for Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The system is able to monitor the main subjects of Xinjiang regional economy including economic growth, investment, consumption, trade, prices, industrial enterprises, coal industry and services, with the tools like diffusion index, composite index, signa...