Firms often find it necessary to offer variety of products in order to compete in existing and emerging product market segments. The extreme requirement of this trend is that of mass customization. An important principle is to mitigate costs due to variety and manage complexity in order to achieve efficiency level similar to that of mass production. A systematic and fundamental strategy to achi...

This paper addresses challenges involved with measuring the performance of an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) based system in a production environment. These challenges include specific requirements for the measuring system to be non-intrusive, have low-overhead, and to be able to provide monitoring and visibility to all the business objects in the production system. A prototype EJB Performance Meas...

Iranian offshore oil and gas platforms are mostly located in the Persian Gulf. Technical and environmental challenges resulted from an off-design running condition of processes on a platform are important issues. The weakness of strategies to stop or decrease the amount of greenhouse gas emission production rate in the Persian Gulf; which is intensively increasing, is another matter of concern....

As contemporary firms increase their reliance on information technology (IT) and are increasingly turning their attention to jointly creating value with their primary stakeholders, there is a growing need to understand what enablers promote from interfirm value co-creation from co-production in supply chains, how the co-production can be realized and what value can be created through the co-pro...

Lithium-ion batteries are used in a wide range of applications, with the electromobility sector being main contributor to increasing demand predicted for next decade. Although play an important role decarbonizing transportation sector, their production includes energy-intensive processes that hinder more sustainable production. Moreover, characterized by manifold parameters leading complex caus...

BACKGROUND The soil bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum, best known for its glutamate producing ability, is suitable as a producer of a variety of bioproducts. Glutamate is the precursor of the amino acid proline. Proline biosynthesis typically involves three enzymes and a spontaneous cyclisation reaction. Alternatively, proline can be synthesised from ornithine, an intermediate of arginine bi...