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 create a supply chain measurement framework for manufacturing industry. The research is based on a review of the current understanding of supply chain management and literature related to supply chain performanc...

Recently, production demand in manufacturing industries has changed drastically from demand for high-mix, low-volume production to that for high-mix, variable-volume production. At Fujitsu, we are promoting innovative engineering through the effective use of existing equipment without the need for additional investments and by implementing the Toyota Production System. Two major themes of manuf...

In the present scenario, the work environment is undergoing a major shift factors such as globalisation, growing economies and improved technology are constantly presenting new challenges for business. Human Resource is the most important asset for any organization and is the source of achieving competitive advantage. For the accomplishment of organization objective, Human resource has become t...

This paper presents a planning system for Lean Manufacturing and is applicable to a variety of manual and automated manufacturing operations. By defining a standard set of Lean Manufacturing metrics, our research sets up a framework for performance measurement and benchmarking. A financial Cost of Waste measure is developed from data on current performance levels, and the planning framework dev...

Deadlock-free operation is a principal requirement for an automated manufacturing system. The part types passing through the manufacturing system are characterized by the sequence of the manufacturing resources required for their completion. The method partitions the sequence into alternate subsequences consisting of deadlock-free resources and deadlock-risk resources. The set of deadlock-free ...

* Correspondence to: José Pinto-Gouveia, CINEICC, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua do Colégio Novo, Apartado 6153, 3001-802 Coimbra, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] This research has been supported by the second and third authors Ph.D. Grants (SFRH/BD/40290/2007; SFRH/ BD/36211/2007), sponsored by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and T...

The main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (IC) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 Malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. The manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (Standard Industrial Classification (...

today manufacturing contract has a special place in the big and small transaction. the subject of manufacturing contract is the made of goods that manufacturer has recommended to maker with determining of attributes and characterizes with preparation primary materials to make it in a specified time and shall delivered to manufacturer. manufacturing contract in fourth school of religious jurispr...

Cloud manufacturing is defined as a relationship between the consumer and a flexible array of production services, managed by an intervening architecture that can match service providers to product and manufacturing processes Cloud manufacturing definitions typically make explicit or imply three groups of actors: consumers, who request and use cloud manufacturing processes; application provider...

Piston plays a vital role in almost all types of vehicles. The present study discusses the behavioral study of a piston manufacturing plant. Manufacturing plants are complex repairable systems and therefore, it is difficult to evaluate the performance of a piston manufacturing plant using stochastic models. The stochastic model is an efficient performance evaluator for repairable systems. In...