Today in Indian industries total productive maintenance (TPM) has made significant impact on the managers, engineers, technicians and workers. Either with direct involvement in TPM implementation process or due to indirect awareness from employees of other nearby industries who have adopted or planned to adopt TPM concept; TPM has become part of concern for significant portion of employees of I...

The paper presents a modelling approach for performance comparison of Central European companies on three levels: country, industry, and company. The approach is based on Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process. The proposed model consists of two basic sections. The first section estimates the importance of selected industries in the countries, whereas the second section evalua...

Local industries are crucial for enhancing urban competitiveness and are closely related to national economic performance. To sustainably develop local industries, a set of assessment indices should be formulated in addition to factors such as geographical environments, cultural history, development processes, and industrial structures for governments to promote development policies while satis...

Microbial cellulases have shown their potential application in various industries including pulp and paper, textile, laundry, biofuel production, food and feed industry, brewing, and agriculture. Due to the complexity of enzyme system and immense industrial potential, cellulases have been a potential candidate for research by both the academic and industrial research groups. Nowadays, significa...

To solve the environment pollution problem by toxic heavy metal contamination resulting from human technological activities has for long presented a challenge. Electroplating industries poses a major contribution to heavy metal pollution to environment. Since the process of biosorption has many attractive features compared to the conventional effluent treatment methods in electroplating industr...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become important part of industries as they enable industries to make their operations and resources more efficient and integrate business data process. In order to put an ERP project successfully in service, it is necessary to select an ERP system which can meet the requirements of the industries. Thus, a decision making approach for ERP system s...