How should the performance of a manufacturing company be assessed, relative to firms making similar products, at home and abroad? This paper shows how company-level productivity measures can be developed from public financial data to provide a more comprehensive gauge of firm performance than profit rates alone. As a specific example, we focus on the Korean steelmaker, POSCO. Founded four decad...

Located in Guangxi Province, China, the Liuzhou Iron and Steel Company is one of China’s leading suppliers of plate steel to its shipbuilding industry. Also exporting to countries such as Japan, Germany, Singapore and Thailand, the company is now capable of producing one million tons of steel per year, owing to a series of recent technical innovation projects. Foremost among these is an ongoing...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate employees and managers’ satisfaction of transportation system in the steal and rolling Units of Saba in Mobarakeh Steel Company using the intuitionistic fuzzy data. The statistical population included the personnel of Saba Steel and Rolling Units from Mobarakeh Steel Company including 1800 people.

To compete effectively in the global marketplace of the twenty-first century, manufacturing companies are trying to maintain a high level of flexibility and responsiveness to achieve agility and to remain competitive. Manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to improve productivity and quality while reducing costs. The new competition is in terms of reduced cost, improved quality products wi...

This communication is based on an original approach linking economical factors to technical and methodological ones. This work is applied to decision process for mix production. This approach is relevant for costing driving system. The main interesting point is that the quotation factors (linked to time indicators for each step of the industrial process) allow the complete evaluat ion and contr...