In today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. The manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. One of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. Most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important fact...

in today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. the manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. one of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important...

Caroline Artoisenet Socio-Economie de la Santé Ecole de la Santé Publique UCL Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30/41 B-1200 Bruxelles Tel.: 32-2-7643098 Mail: [email protected] The regulation of human resources is a controversial subject. In Belgium, after some years of political disputes, student strikes, and procrastination, quotas have been applied to new graduates in medicine (sin...

In a distributed ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, the different local ERP systems are integrated in such a way that each local system can use the resources/stocks managed by the other local ERP systems. Businesses with branch offices may benefit greatly from such systems. In this paper, we will describe how a distributed ERP system can be used to convert/migrate to a new ERP system in...

The aim of this paper is to consider the process of supplying trained workers with knowledge and skills for upcoming business opportunities, and of training apprentices prepared to meet future demands in an IT service firm. As the demand for new workers has fluctuations, a firm should employ a buffer workforce such as apprentices or interns. However, as a result of rapid development of a busine...