Most studies about the effects of producers’ services on manufacturing agglomeration focus on the effects themselves while neglecting the mechanism that such effects spread. By stressing the key role of trade costs in the process of manufacturing agglomeration, this paper identifies a chain of effects from producers’ service improvements to manufacturing agglomeration via changing trade costs a...

This paper revolves around the impact of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies in Indian Manufacturing industries. Statistics inculcates that a number of industries subsists, which are using different forms of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT). “Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT)” is a generic term, depicting an assembly of manufacturing technologies, which combines both scope and ...

This paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation counts and profitability over 1952-1977. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of restrictive practices legislation in the UK had no signi...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly available data. We find that fir...

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 (...

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The paper presents the conception and achievement of a CAPP module integrated in a CIM system. For the conception of the CAPP module the DB, OOP and OODBMS methods have been integrated in . Thus, a hybride CAPP module (TechCIM) have been realised, which was integrated into a CIM system designed for the manufacturing of the cardanic transmissions from cars. By integrating of the product concepti...

As the competition in market is growing at a very fast pace, one can survive in today’s industrial world by adopting the philosophy of Lean Manufacturing. In order to stay competitive, producing cheaper products at a faster rate Lean Manufacturing would help the industry. This paper represents a case study of Die casting industry. This case study is used to illustrate the steps in implementatio...

SMEs can achieve this goal by implementing computer integrated manufacturing (CIM). The aim of CIM is to produce the required amount of the product of acceptable quality at the right time. If CIM technologies are fully integrated, the SMEs can respond rapidly to changes in product design, demand, or mix. The high investment required for AMT implementation is becoming a major hurdle for SMEs to ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to create geometrically complex parts that require a high degree of customization, using less material and producing less waste. Recent studies have shown that AM can be an economically viable option for use by the industry, yet there are some inherent challenges associated with AM for wider acceptance. The lack of standards in AM impedes its use fo...