Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) are currently two of the most popular manufacturing technologies. Based on 246 Chinese companies’ survey, we found that the degree of the MRP and JIT implementation and integration has a positive relationship with the manufacturer’s performance. The hybrid MRP and JIT system, which create synergy and attains better performance, is wid...

Nowadays, companies are struggling to find an appropriate supply chain strategy to achieve competitiveness. Among the available strategies lean, green and resilient are considered as a new management strategies for the supply chain management to achieve competitiveness. The major issues with theses strategies are the integration and identification of critical issues related to the strategies. T...

With the widespread use of manufacturing philosophies such as Just-In-Time (JIT), emphasis has shifted to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. Traditionally, many optimization models of supplier selection assume that the average prices of related expenditures are constant. This is far beyond the real situation. In fact, suppliers usually off...

Although a great deal of successful research has been carried out in just-in-time (JIT) philosophy, few researchers have focused on the adaptation of JIT philosophy in service systems. Despite the recent improvements in the service systems, few studies have been carried out which examine the effects of the JIT philosophy on service systems which have a different structure to production systems....

The present study evaluates the effectiveness of Just-In-Time Hints (JITs) by testing two competing hypotheses about learning from errors. The tutor-remediation hypothesis predicts that students learn best when a tutoring system immediately explains why an entry is incorrect. The self-remediation hypothesis predicts that learning is maximized when learners attempt to correct their own errors. T...

Although personalised eLearning can offer many tangible benefits to the entire educational process such as teacher and learner empowerment [Conlan et. al. 2004] [Bajraktarevic et. al. 2003], educational community collaboration and tailored eLearning delivered just in time and just for you, several issues restrict its mainstream appeal. These issues relate to the technical coordination of buildi...

The e-Learning paradigm shift capitalises on two main aspect: the elimination of the barriers of time and distance, and the personalisation of the learners’ experience. The current trend in education and training emphasises on identifying methods and tools for delivering just-in-time, on-demand knowledge experiences tailored individual learners, taking into consideration their differences in sk...

A ‘‘Just-In-Time Lecture’’ is a low-cost, flexible technology for creating and presenting educational material to groups and individuals. A review of learning concepts and education research supports the notion that Just-In-Time Lecture technology should be as effective as traditional classroom instruction. This finding is based on (1) a large body of research on related technologies, including...

We present the Moments in Time Dataset, a large-scale human-annotated collection of one million short videos corresponding to dynamic events unfolding within three seconds. Modeling the spatial-audio-temporal dynamics even for actions occurring in 3 second videos poses many challenges: meaningful events do not include only people, but also objects, animals, and natural phenomena; visual and aud...

The assembly line balancing problem is a non deterministic polynomial type planning problem for mass production. Layout design changes constitute a major decision that yields investment for assembly operations and numerous heuristics have been reported in the literature for solving the line balancing problems. U-shaped assembly layout offers several benefits over traditional straight-line layou...