Lean Manufacturing system has been acknowledged by Indian industry as a capable system in enhancing organisational performance by focusing on elimination of waste from the manufacturing system and thus improving effectiveness of the organisation. But still in most of Indian industries it is currently used as improvement tool instead of adopting this concept as a culture. Though if used on full ...

aims: musculoskeletal disorders are common occupational hazards and disabilities in developing countries. this study was to assess postures and determine musculoskeletal disorders in employees of a water flow meter manufacturing factory in iran. materials & methods: in this descriptive analytical study that was done among workers of iran ensheab factory from water-counter manufacturing industry...

Sustainability has been identified as an emerging business megatrend that companies across the spectrum need to respond to. Companies in the manufacturing industry have also increased their efforts in this direction. However, the efforts for improving the efficiency of manufacturing processes vary widely across the industry and may vary even within different locations of a large manufacturing o...

Sorting and mating is a very common practice in high precision manufacturing, as well in the watch industry, biomedical or automotive industry. This strategy helps to increase the assembly yield, but is costly and timeconsuming. The question is, when is it necessary to apply sorting and mating, and when can it by avoided without loss in product quality? We furthermore show in this paper that th...

Theoretical models have been ambiguous on the relationship between industry competition and inventory holdings of manufacturing firms. Facing competition, on the one hand, firms may desire to hold more inventory to avoid losing sales to competitors; on the other hand, firms strive to improve inventory turns to control costs and stay competitive. Using U.S. Census data on manufacturing industrie...

The ceramic tile industry has evolved greatly in the recent years to the almost complete automation of the production line. After a decade of improvements in the manufacture, today’s plants are capable of mass produce tiles with little human intervention. However, the planning and scheduling of the orders has not changed much and scheduling the client’s orders in the shop remains as a manually ...

This study takes Tianjin as an example to analyze how build the manufacturing industry chain ecosystem. Based on ecosystem theory, related literature of and value chain, combined with various action plans for development in Tianjin, structure chart construction roadmap industrial were drawn. input–output data 42 sectors this calculated analyzed changes embedment degree industries Global Value C...

This paper addresses the need to “know why” we build by looking first at the systemic nature, and complexity, that informs the construction industry’s current paradigm. An objective of this paper is to present how the construction industry’s reigning paradigm is driven by an entrenched and obfuscating manufacturingindustrial-engineering mindset. This obfuscation is not abnormal. According to Ku...

Although the empirical pattern of industry shakeout has been documented for many manufacturing industries, we know little about the processes by which market structure evolves in non-manufacturing service industries. This paper establishes detailed empirical observations about the consolidation of a single non-manufacturing industry, the wholesale distribution of pharmaceuticals. These observat...