One question of great importance to Information Systems (IS) researchers is how to effectively and efficiently move expert knowledge from researchers to practitioners. This paper identifies a novel knowledge use process – knowledge mobilization – which focuses on the process of organizing knowledge and making it ready for active service within a community. A literature review of knowledge manag...

Research on Just-in-Time (JIT), Total Quality Management (TQM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Theory of Constraints (TOC) generally investigate the implementation and impact of these programs in isolation. However, many researchers believe and argue conceptually the value of understanding the joint implementation and effect of manufacturing programs. Thi...

In this paper, we describe a parallel implementation of the implicitly coupled solution approach for combined electromechanical and electromagnetic transients simulation. In the proposed parallel-in-space-and-time scheme, the equations for transient stability (TS) are partitioned in space and the coupled-in-time electromagnetic transients equations (EMT) are partitioned in time. Thus each proce...

In this paper sequencing situations with Just-in-Time (JiT) arrival are introduced. This new type of one-machine sequencing situations assumes that a job is available to be handled by the machine as soon as its predecessor is finished. A basic predecessor dependent set-up time is incorporated in the model. Sequencing situations with JiT arrival are first analyzed from an operations research per...

This paper investigates the reduction of variance associated with a simulation output performance measure, using the Sequential Sampling method while applying minimum simulation replications, for a class of JIT (Just in Time) warehousing system called crossdocking. We initially used the Sequential Sampling method to attain a desired 95% confidence interval half width of ± 0.5 for our chosen per...

This document contains an approach to map the changeability possibilities of machine tools used on the shop floor onto line management understandable business processes. The identified gap is a lack of information transparency on the line management level due to constraints, complexity and speed of a production process on the shop floor. Especially medium-sized enterprises in the supplier secto...

The means for Hybrid learning take on many forms. In this paper, we look at learning facilitators that can be embedded within the user interface. We argue that these means of learning can be even more effective than formal training. We describe different features of the user interface that can provide just-in-time knowledge that fosters learning: immersing the student into a rich environment wh...

Twitter is a well-known Web 2.0 microblogging social networking site that is quite popular for organizing events and sharing updates. It provides just in time communication, social connectivity and immediate feedback through Web, smartphones, tablet PCs, etc. The use of Twitter has also attracted educators and researchers due to its growing popularity among students, teachers, and academic comm...

In recent years, inventory management is continuous challenge for all organizations not only due to heavy cost associated with inventory holding, but also it has a great deal to do with the organizations production process. Cement industry is a growing sector of Pakistan's economy which is now facing problems in capacity utilization of their plants. This study attempts to identify the key strat...

This paper discusses the dynamic relationship which exists between the seen (object, space) and the heard, where the sound can transform our perception of the visual/spatial content, and further how this can be transformed by interaction. It proposes that seeing is typically focused on ‘one thing at a time’, whereas hearing is active, multivalent and typically focused on plural sources, and fur...