Why do we need measurement The software industry as all other industry has as its main goals to deliver products and services to the market. This must be done at a price that the customer accepts as reasonable and at a quality that the customer wants. One of the main characteristics of the market is that it changes, not by itself but through the competition among those who provide the goods tha...

In the manufacturing domain there are two major challenges in the future, innovation via integration enabling improved decision making and servitization, the design and use of innovative services. The German Industry 4.0 initiative is aiming to support the integration and virtualisation of manufacturing design and production processes using the internet in infrastructure to create smart product...

The software industry continues to struggle with producing quality software in the most efficient manner. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of newer, innovative development methods, which embrace high levels of collaboration, may be a viable solution to this problem. While collaboration has always been used, these techniques emphasize high levels of interpersonal collaboration during the...

Received: 10 February 2012 Abstract Accepted: 9 May 2012 The article addresses the issues of Supply Chain (SC) performance measurement – the process of qualifying the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain. The aim of this study is to present a supply chain measurement approaches for manufacturing industry. The research is based on a review of the current understanding of supply chain...

Research Article Robert W. Zmud University of Oklahoma [email protected] Teresa Shaft University of Oklahoma [email protected] Weijun Zheng University of Wisconsin, Parkside [email protected] Because research programs investigating IT-related phenomena are hindered by limitations in the availability of archival data, researchers have used a variety of data collection strategies including the gathering of fi...

Managing occupational safety in any kind of industry, especially in processing, is very important and complex. This paper develops a new method for occupational risk assessment in the presence of uncertainties. Uncertain values of hazardous factors and consequence frequencies are described with linguistic expressions defined by a safety management team. They are modeled with fuzzy sets. Consequ...

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A wide range of composite material forms are finding use in today’s aerospace, automotive, and other transportation industry segments. The Boeing 787 commercial airliner, unveiled in 2007, features over 50% carbon fiber composites by structural weight, while the entire structure of the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento supercar, unveiled in 2011, is made exclusively from carbon fiber composites [1-2]....

Chemical reactions at the gas-surface interface are ubiquitous in the chemical industry as well as in nature. Investigating these processes at a microscopic, quantum state-resolved level helps develop a predictive understanding of this important class of reactions. In this review, we present an overview of the field of quantum state-resolved gas-surface reactivity measurements that explore the ...