Effective management of industrial companies in the conditions modern challenges contributes to achievement tactical and strategic goals technological development enterprises. In theory practice economics, a special place is given environmental management, which includes operational investment risk etc. The concentration efforts certain direction depends on specifics activities subjects problem...

clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed cou...

This paper investigates the relationship between traditional systems development methodologies and usability, through a survey of 78 Norwegian IT companies. Building on previous research we proposed two hypotheses; (1) that software companies will generally pay lip service to usability, but do not prioritize it in industrial projects, and (2) that systems development methods and usability are p...

Abstract of Re-engineering of Industrial CMMI Through this research, I have established a general strategy to appraise an organization against a scale of five process maturity levels whilst maintaining a strong mechanics of CMMI. Reengineering of industrial CMMI proposes a novel method for Industrial Competence ranking of those organizations/companies which are targeting various CMM...

New paradigms in industrial automation aims towards intelligence distribution among components of the productive process and through the integration of several systems and applications in the companies, searching processes improvement, supporting decision-making tasks by real time information available, reliable and opportune. This work proposes industrial automation architecture based on multi...

Software reuse in modern industrial automation systems is gaining in importance. Small and medium-sized companies (SMC) in particular, see reuse as a possibility to lower costs and shorten time-to-market. The market lacks existing reusable software which is applicable for industrial automation systems. Therefore, companies are forced to develop reusable software on their own. The currently avai...

This paper argues that Industrial Organization theory is essential but not sufficient to understand the individual and collective performance of modern media organizations. Institutional economics is an important source of theory, too. Whereas Industrial organization emphasizes market structural conditions that stimulate strategic variety and product differentiation, institutional economics emp...

Human resources development by means of training, education at universities and schools, and skill development within industry projects will be essential to foster product innovation within the African industry. It is expected that investments in Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) through educating engineering students and companies can contribute to the innovation capacity of African industry...

Abstrac tAn integration in a framework of e-diagnostic and e-maintenance components based on web-services has been developed for industrial monitoring systems. The aim is to perform tele-monitoring, diagnostic and maintenance tasks for industrial monitoring systems working in dynamic conditions of commitments, suppliers, and customers. The framework has been customized initially for an elevator...