In recent years, due to COVID 19 pandemic that has resulted in an unpredictable increase water consumption, the global concerns about resources management have been increased. Furthermore, it seems essential focus on strategies enabling decrease consumption. So, aim of this study is identify and prioritize potential during such pandemic. To do so, we develop a hybrid decision-making approach. A...

nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. so, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. the supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. since in previous researches the inter relationship between criteri...

In this study we explored the challenges involved in Lean Transformation and implementation manufacturing sector. Using survey data from 50 North American organizations, examined implementing sustaining Manufacturing (LM) principles practices production processes. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) network (FANP) were used to rank considerable observed these organizations. We concluded...

Increasing numbers of Taiwanese higher education institutes are pursuing innovation operation. However, these institutes generally rely greatly on academic research to evaluate innovation performance. Nevertheless, the performance of innovation may be affected by numerous factors that are often beyond the scope of a single academic study. Thus, to address this concern, this paper constructs an ...

According to the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA), 140 Billion CAD is required to maintain, rehabilitate, and replace subway infrastructure between 2010 and 2014. The current practice adopted by transit authorities for prioritizing subway stations for rehabilitation is based on the station structural needs. While this classification is reflective of station condition, other factors, su...

In the offshore renewable energy industry, it is extremely important to reduce the likelihood as well as the magnitude of potential risk events during system’s actual operation. Operational risks (either risk of system failures or environmental risks) may cause catastrophic damages to personnel or infrastructure and result in substantial costs in terms of lost production and emergency maintenan...

Article history: Received 27 September 2007 Received in revised form 4 October 2008 Accepted 15 June 2009 With the rapid advancement of technology, product life cycle is shortening continuously. In order to compete against other firms in fiercely competitive global markets, a firm has to keep developing new technology to differentiate itself from others. The acquisition of new coretechnology eq...