India is one of the fastest emerging global manufacturing hub with a large number of firms shifting their manufacturing base to the country due to cheap labor and good supplier(s) base. Over the years, India has the largest number of companies, outside of Japan, that have been recognized for excellence in quality. As many as 21 companies have received the Deming Exce...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical companies in Africa need to invest in both facilities and quality management systems to achieve good manufacturing practice (GMP) compliance. Compliance to international GMP standards is important to the attainment of World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification. However, most of the local pharmaceutical manufacturing companies may be deterred from investing in qua...

This paper examines the performance of the Morningstar Solvency Score, Morningstar's new accounting-ratio based metric for predicting bankruptcy, in comparison to the Altman Z-Score and Distance to Default models. Specifically we tested the following: 1. The ordinal ability of each model to distinguish companies most likely to file for bankruptcy from those least likely to file for bankruptcy a...

As the increasing use of RFID technology in manufacturing companies, the real-time production data collection is inadequate. Companies especially small and medium-sized manufacturing entities, contemplate to implement advanced planning and scheduling (APS) so as to achieve real-time production. This paper, motivated by a reallife case, proposes a real-time planning and scheduling model to reali...

This paper presents the problems and issues facing manufacturing companies in Malaysia, and analyses the reasons behind the growing demand for simulation. Such a demand can be mainly attributed to the companies’ search for methods to increase productivity, the emergence of manufacturing-oriented simulation software which requires no or little programming, and the graphical capability and availa...

having a full understanding of the world’s social-economic situation is the success key for industries automotive manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive one usually there is no clear guideline among automotive companies about technological causes behind their success and failure. this research provides an investigation about the world’s economic situation and the environmental situa...