For many cases, grading and prioritizing the projects are so important in project-based organizations. In fact, it means prioritizing some projects and allocating organizational resource only to those projects to reach the organization profit up to maximum level through such allocation and decision. There are many different factors contribute in choosing the best project combination for organiz...

Technological advances have shown an accentuated growth trend, which is directly proportional to the quality of life in today’s society. As a result, business market becoming increasingly competitive and customers are more demanding, forcing companies look for new tools adopt work methodologies improve their flexibility, effectiveness efficiency, ensuring better response needs. In this context,...

An efficient and accurate demand forecast becomes imperative for enhancement of commericial competitive advantage at al the stages of supply chain , escpically in the absence of collaborative supply chain management.Procurement decisions in the upstream supply chain to buy right quantity at right time for effective inventory management decisions depend on the accurate prediction of demand The o...

The research study involved exploring how Peruvian companies use TQM practices and the differences in this use considering industrial sector and company size. Three hundred and sixty-three MBA students, middle managers of private companies operating in Arequipa, Cajamarca, Chiclayo, Cusco, Lima, Piura, or Trujillo, answered a questionnaire, developed by the author, about the use of TQM practice...

This paper describes the potential contribution of near-miss management systems to improving company profitability and reducing the frequency and severity of major industrial accidents. The near-miss concept has long been understood in both manufacturing and finance, as several examples in this paper illustrate. However, what has been largely missing is the integration of near-miss management i...

Practices (BMP) Program, a unique industry and government cooperative technology transfer effort that improves the competitiveness of America's industrial base both here and abroad. Our main goal at BMP is to increase the quality, reliability, and maintainability of goods produced by American firms. The primary objective toward this goal is simple: to identify best practices, document them, and...

There was a time when industrial PCs, rigorously tested for high reliability, were a step behind the consumer PC market with respect to implementing the latest processors and advanced technologies. However, this definitely isn’t the case for B&R*, who works closely with Intel to carefully align its automation PC roadmap with Intel® processor launches. For instance, B&R, the world’s largest priv...