titanate thin films measured by double beam laser interferometry S. Sivaramakrishnan, P. Mardilovich, A. Mason, A. Roelofs, T. Schmitz-Kempen, and S. Tiedke Hewlett Packard Company, 1070 NE Circle Blvd., Corvallis, Oregon 97330, USA Materials Science, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA Center for Nanoscale Mater...

The contemporary manufacturing organisations are forced to adopt advanced manufacturing paradigms for sustaining in the global markets. Supply chain management is an essential ingredient of advanced manufacturing systems since outsourcing gains vital importance. Supplier selection is a vital issue concerned in the process of managing global supply chains. A conceptual model for supplier selecti...

The crossword puzzle is a classic pastime that is well-known all over the world. We consider the crossword manufacturing process in more detail, investigating a two-step approach, first generating a mask, which is an empty crossword puzzle skeleton, and then filling the mask with words from a given dictionary to obtain a valid crossword. We show that the whole manufacturing process is NP-comple...

using the cluster approach aims to increase cooperation in the competition to small and medium units, the use of knowledge and innovation was emphasized and more attention. this study compares the innovation performance with the mediation of knowledge management in industrial clusters rubber parts rosen and rubber parts manufacturing companies that formed clusters have left the hamedan province...

Environmental sustainability in manufacturing sector has been allocated a major consideration in the international literature. Due to growing concerns over the high effect of SMEs on world manufacturing industries and their high contribution to pollution; this research attempts to focus on the key parameters that interact in the application of environmental management system, taking into accoun...

The need for companies to develop consistent and competitive manufacturing strategies is now well established. A fundamental question in the development of a manufacturing strategy is the determination of what the company will make and what it will buy, i.e. the make vs. buy (MvB) decision. Historically, such decisions were often made primarily on grounds of cost, however, in recent years there...

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...

the most important environmental pollutant in steel industry is air pollution due to the process of its products. optimise sitting for this industry, in a great extend will prevent pollutants and emissions. khorasan steel company is located near some populous villages and three rivers. it is necessary to perform an investigation for providing abatement and control of air pollution, in time of p...