This work focuses on the process redesign for software development and management implemented at a Mexican steel manufacturing company. The main goal was to improve the software systems production, maintenance and support; it was achieved by implementing artifacts and practices of RUP and Agile Methodologies like FDD and XP. Throughout this document we can identify the needs and problems on the...

Biological phosphorus removal (BPR) techniques offer a number of advantages over chemical addition, including enhanced treatment, reduced energy consumption, and reduced sludge production. A rapid, low-cost method for determining the feasibility of biological phosphorus removal should allow these techniques to be more widely used. A simple test is proposed to determine the amount of phosphorus ...

Business Process Redesign (BPR) projects are considered to be high risk due to their high management complexity, enterprisewide impact, and steep project cost. This paper describes a technique that should reduce that risk by developing a systematic process redesign method that we call Dynamic Process Modeling (DPM). It integrates customer-oriented process modeling with computerized visual proce...

Most organizations implement business process reengineering (BPR) for improving their performances. Increasingly, companies around the world are reengineering their core business processes to be more profitable and to improve customer satisfaction. While the merits and innovative aspects of BPR are open to debate, BPR provides opportunities for management science and operations research profess...

In this paper a methodology to develop simulation models is presented. The methodology is based on a multi-level simulation model which allows flexibility and process analysis. The present work starts from applied researches in different SME enterprises. Enterprise management often needs easy and fast developed tools to increase production capacity and flexibility. In many cases performances in...