Introduction Modern manufacturing system is experiencing the emergence of a new paradigm wherein increased customization, product proliferation, heterogeneous markets, shorter product life cycle and development time, responsiveness, and other factors are increasingly taking center stage (Bollinger, 1998). For example, in Japan, Toyota was reportedly offering five-day delivery from the time the ...

OBJECTIVES School-based anti-tobacco education using the "social influences" model is known to reduce smoking among youth by 5-56%. Program effectiveness, however, dissipates in 1-4 years. Consequently, opinion leaders have questioned whether a more intensive national educational effort would be economically efficient. To address this question, we evaluated the cost-effectiveness of enhanced na...

Factory layout is one of the most important problems in a company, because arrangement facilities affects efficiency and cost manufacturing products. PT. Sermani Steel Makassar City companies engaged manufacture or production zinc-coated steel sheets (Zn) with capacity 3000 tons/year, problem that occurs related departments far apart, causing large moving costs. The CRAFT Algorithm method an im...

process that is highly dependent on seasonal demand. Traditionally, the full development cycle of a new product occurs at least twice a year on short schedules. In the past decade the revolution of “fast-fashion” has caused retailers to develop products at a frenetic pace. This movement is changing the face of the global apparel industry and placing more pressure on retailers, forcing them to d...

The apparel e-commerce industry is growing day by day. In recent times, consumers are particularly interested in an easy and time-saving way of online shopping. addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has generated more need for effective convenient shopping solution consumers. However, shopping, several challenges These issues include sizing, fit, return, cost concerns. Especially, fit issue one cardi...

Increasing global competition has enforced all members of supply chains to optimize their activities to achieve high performance and customer satisfaction. A company can improve its supply chain performance in terms of responsiveness and efficiency by means of good facility layout design. Facilities are the places in the supply chain network where product is stored, manufactured, assembled or f...

Quality and value of an IC product are functions of power, performance, area, cost and reliability. The forthcoming 2013 ITRS roadmap observes that while manufacturers continue to enable potential Moore’s Law scaling of layout densities, the “realizable” scaling in competitive products has for some years been significantly less. In this paper, we consider aspects of the question, “To what exten...

However excellent a product may be environmentally, it would not come into wide use in the economy to realize its environmental load reducing potential unless it is also economically affordable. Life-cycle costing (LCC) is a tool to assess the cost of a product over its entire life cycle, and can be regarded as an economic counterpart of LCA. A combined use of LCA and LCC would be imperative fo...

A new approach highly suitable to implement cost effective semicustom Smart Power ICs and intelligent discrete high power devices is presented. A versatile mask configurable power array is proposed to become a high volume standard product. Design strategies are discussed. An overview on integration strategies and layout considerations, using a standard, low cost, CMOS technology, with no extra ...

There are some problems with estimating the time required for the manufacturing process of products, especially when there is a variable serving time, like control stage. These problems will cause overestimation of process time. Layout constraints, reworking constraints and inflexible product schedule in multi product lines need a precise planning to reduce volume in particular situation of lin...